The most boring thing we reordered all year
Every few months someone in the Đà Nẵng office crawls under a desk to plug in one more thing, comes back up red-faced, and announces that we don't have enough outlets. We never have enough outlets. A laptop, a monitor, a phone charger, a desk lamp, a second monitor that appeared one Monday with no explanation, and suddenly four people are sharing a wall socket through a daisy chain that would make an electrician quietly leave the room.
The unglamorous truth about running an office is that the things you reorder most are the things nobody wants to write about. Nobody circles a power strip on a desk and goes "where did you get that". But when Linh set up her new corner this spring, the thing that actually unblocked her wasn't the chair or the monitor arm. It was a pair of GE power strips that turned one stingy wall socket into something a working desk could live on.
I'm writing a whole post about a power strip. I'm aware of this. But we've bought enough bad ones over the years (the kind that buzz, the kind where the switch dies, the kind that arrive in a single unit when you needed two) that the boring reliable option has earned a paragraph or six.
Who Actually Needs This
Not everyone. If you've got one device and a wall to plug it into, you don't need anything. This is for the desk that quietly accumulated six things that all need power and never planned for it.
- 🔌 Anyone whose desk has more chargers than outlets, which is most desks
- 🏠 Home office setups where the nearest socket is across the room behind a cabinet
- 📦 People setting up two stations at once and tired of buying strips one at a time
- 🧱 Anyone who'd rather mount the strip on a wall or desk underside than leave it loose on the floor
What It Gets You
Six grounded outlets, two strips
Six 3-prong grounded outlets per strip, and you get two strips in the box. That's the part that quietly matters. Most of the time you're not setting up one desk, you're setting up a desk and then realizing the printer corner needs one too. Buying them in pairs means the second one is already in the drawer when that happens.
A real circuit breaker, not just a switch
There's an integrated circuit breaker that cuts power if the strip sees an overload. It's ETL-listed (the testing-lab stamp that means it was actually checked, same idea as UL), rated at 125 volts. This is not a surge protector with joule ratings and warranty insurance, it's an honest grounded power strip with a breaker. Know which one you're buying.
Keyhole slots so it leaves the floor
The back has keyhole mounting slots, so you can hang it on a wall, the side of a desk, or the underside where the cables already live. We screwed Linh's to the back edge of the desk and the floor stayed clear, which is the whole reason anyone tolerates cable management in the first place.
The cord situation
The cord is short. About a foot and a half. GE calls it an extension cord, which is generous, because it extends almost nothing. This is built to sit near the wall socket, not to reach across a room. More on that below, because it's the thing that'll annoy you if you didn't read the listing.
💡 Tien's Note
Mount the strip first, then plan your cables, not the other way around. The keyhole slots mean it disappears under the desk lip, and a power strip you can't see is the only kind that doesn't end up covered in dust and a stray coffee ring.
The Honest Version
4.5 stars across 1,544 reviews. For a power strip, that's about as settled as a verdict gets. People plug it in, it works, they don't think about it again, and a few of them remember to leave a review. That's the whole arc.
What the good reviews say: solid build, outlets grip the plugs properly instead of letting them sag out, the breaker does its job, and getting two in a box feels like the sensible way to buy these.
What I'd flag honestly:
- 🔌 The cord is genuinely short. A foot and a half. If you needed the strip to reach from the wall to the far side of a desk, this is the wrong product and you'll be annoyed. It's a "sit it right by the socket" strip, not a "run it across the room" one.
- ⚡ It's a power strip with a breaker, not a surge protector. If you're plugging in something you'd cry over after a lightning strike, buy actual surge protection. For chargers, lamps, and monitors, a grounded strip is fine.
- 🧱 The keyhole slots are handy but the mounting screws aren't in the box. Not a big deal, most desks have a spare drawer of them, but don't expect a kit.
None of that makes it a bad strip. It makes it a strip that's honest about being a strip. Six outlets, grounded, a breaker, mountable, two of them, short cord. If that's the shape of your problem, it solves it and gets out of the way.
For roughly what a couple of team coffees in Đà Nẵng run, it turned Linh's one cramped socket into a desk that actually has room to grow, and put a spare in the drawer for the next person who crawls out from under a desk announcing we're out of outlets. We will be out of outlets again. We always are.
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