EUREKA ERGONOMIC 47 Inch Gaming Desk with Full Mouse Pad - Ergonomic T-Shaped Computer Desk with Cup Holder, Headphone Hook & Handle Rack | USB Charging Ports | Perfect for PC & Console Gamers | Black | Ideal for Home Office & Gaming Setup

Overall I very much like this desk, am satisfied with the purchase and look forward to using it for a long time as it seems quite sturdy — the full desk mouse pad will only help, as it protects the surface of the desk itself from wear. Assembling the desk was also very easy, overall, with only one even remotely significant hang up. The combination controller/media holder and USB hub is also a welcome add-on. The other premium features (cup holder, headphone hooks) were less impressive, however, in their implementations for reasons I’ll detail below.Despite being a great product overall — one that could easily merit 5 stars and one I had fully expected to award such a rating — I gave this item only 3 stars for the following reasons:1. While the full desk mouse pad is a nice touch, I was planning not to use it because red — while a perfectly fine color and one that I like — is not my favorite color, so I wanted to stick with the carbon fiber design of the desk itself. Unfortunately, the pictures that show the desk sans mouse pad do not reflect the fact that it ships in two pieces that are joined by the frame, and doing so would result in this fact being clearly visible in an aesthetically unappealing way. I understand that they did this to make the package smaller, which is convenient for transporting and warehousing these desks on the manufacturer's and seller’s ends, as well as for getting the unassembled desk to where it's going on the customer's end, but it would have been nice to have known this up-front. At the very least, if Eureka didn’t want to have a different SKU for the desk for each color/design of mouse pad they offered it with, they could always sell the mouse pad separately in different colors (including a neutral tones option) as an accessory. They already do this with the keyboard tray, so why not the mouse pad as well? Alternatively, there could be a slight recess in the surface of the desk on either side of the seam to accommodate a thin metal plate designed to work the fact that it is composed of two pieces rather than one into the aesthetic of the desk.2. The heads of the screws that attach the plastic pieces that give the legs of the desk their shape to the metal frame (the subject of Step 5 of the assembly instructions) are just small enough that they fit through the holes in the frame that the stem of the screw is supposed to go though to attach to said plastic pieces. Fortunately I had some spare washers on hand of the right size to compensate for this shortcoming of the design, but not everyone will. If I hadn't, I certainly would have been annoyed at having to run out to the hardware store in the middle of putting the desk together in order to get some. For other prospective buyers: about nickel-sized or a few millimeters smaller; with a center hole four, maybe five millimeters in diameter; and as thin as you can get them is what you want — go ahead and pick some up while you're waiting for the desk to get to be delivered, you can thank me later. Alternately you could forego bothering with these pieces entirely, seeing as how they're purely aesthetic. For Eureka: in the future, maybe modify the design to make the holes these screws pass through in the legs of the desk smaller, or, alternately, include washers to ensure they can actually secure the plastic coverings to the legs of the desk.3. The screws to attach some pieces (the plastic coverings for the legs/feet of the desk, the rack for your power strip/surge protector, the headphone hooks and the cup holder) are of the pointy-tipped variety that go directly into the material each of the pieces above are intended to attach to instead of having a nut pre-embedded into said piece at the appropriate point. Technically there's nothing *wrong* with this, but it does make the attachment points for those pieces a little more prone to becoming irreversibly damaged if you accidentally over-tighten the screw and subsequently strip the hole. Given that the rest of the pieces attach this way, that this method provides extra longevity and protection to the item overall, I don't see what the purpose was in deviating at these points.4. The headphone hooks and cup holder cannot be moved or adjusted in orientation. I'm using the desk in a tight space where I don't have room on either side of the desk — my girlfriend's desk is right next to mine on one side; and I have a filing cabinet tucked into the corner of the room on the other side, the opening and closing of the drawers of which would be inhibited by either accessory. I assumed that these pieces would have a swivel mechanism of some sort to allow people to orient them along the front edge of the desk (or even tuck them underneath the desk entirely if desired/when not in use) given how wide it is — and I’ll freely admit it was my mistake to make such an assumption — I still consider it a shortcoming of the product itself. This is for the simple reason that such a mechanism need not be any more complex than having the cupholder/headphone hooks coming off of an O-shaped piece that floats freely inside a spool-shaped mount with the holes to screw it onto the desk in the middle of the "O." If Eureka didn’t want to go that route, they could have at least included an alternate set of pre-drilled holes to allow people to orient these add-ons so they protrude from the front edge of the desk rather than the sides if desired.5. The surge protector rack attaches smack dab in the center of the desk right along the back edge — precisely where I wanted to clamp on my monitor mount. Of course, given that the desk surface is split down the middle, perhaps this wouldn’t be the best idea even if the surge protector rack weren’t in the way. Unless, of course, there was a piece included to make the split more seamless in the fully assembled product, as noted previously. In either case, another solution would have been to have included pre-drilled holes to accommodate alternate positionings of the surge protector rack, or have it attached to a rail of some sort that would allow for the user to adjust its positioning on the fly, if desired.I acknowledge that some of these points are borderline nit-picking, but given that the desk is priced just shy of $200, the features that my critiques center on are the main selling points, and the fixes to them wouldn’t cost much to implement, I feel that Eureka’s failure to implement them merits the removal of two stars. If a company is going to charge a premium price for a product, they should make sure its premium features are implemented well. The desk is nice enough that they could probably get away with charging $30 more for it, easily — possibly even without the improvements I noted, and maybe even as much as $50 if the suggestions in points four and five were implemented particularly well… let’s say with a ball bearing mechanism to make the swivel/sliding actions super smooth?TL;DR: It’s a good desk (and I highly recommend it) but there are some points worth noting about it that could use improvement and aren’t apparent from the pictures and product description.