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Twelve monitor arms Round-up – Introduction

Many affordable monitors are not height adjustable. Manufacturers seem to see ergonomics as a premium feature. For anyone who spends the necessary hours a day behind a screen, whether for work or gaming, a good monitor arm is an excellent investment. We have figured out which one you can buy best.

A monitor support or reams of paper

Especially with business monitors, the presence of ergonomic options is the most normal thing in the world. After all, a forced, incorrect sitting posture by a monitor at the wrong height can cause serious complaints. As long as the chance that the health and safety service will check your home office is nil, many non-adjustable screens will be sold to consumers. Your best option seems to be a few reams of paper. Neither does your monitor become beautiful and finely adjustable.

You’re in the right place with a vesa mount

Fortunately, for the mounting of monitors and televisions there is a standard from the Video Electronics Standards Association, VESA for short, the organization we also know from the displayport cable, for example. The so-called vesa-mount consists of four screw holes at a standardized distance, usually 10 by 10 cm. Often this confirmation is simply hidden under the connection point of the supplied standard. Just check whether your monitor has a vesa mount, because it is occasionally omitted for design or cost considerations.

For desk use, the arms are particularly interesting, which are secured to the desk edge with a clamp. This is not a problem with a somewhat solid desk, but extra reinforcement is usually recommended if the desk has a honeycomb or sandwich construction. Virtually every support from the test also has the option for feed-through mounting, for which there is a gap at some business desks.

Test method

In this test we look in particular at monitor arms that are suitable for mounting two screens, although variants for one or three monitors are often also available. If the latter is the case, we indicate this. For this test, Philips made two 27-inch Quad HD monitors available, thank you. To be precise, it concerns the 272B7QUPBEB, which includes a USB-C dock and the option to loop through a display port signal to a second screen. That saves a nice cable from your PC.

Many of the more affordable monitor arms in the test can be clamped around the upright pillar at the desired height. Adjusting the height with the screens mounted is therefore hardly possible or in any case very impractical. More expensive arms are therefore equipped with a gas spring that holds the monitor up under its own power. Especially if you want to adjust your monitors often, for example because different people use the same workplace, a monitor arm with gas spring is worth viewing despite the additional cost.

In addition to the functions that a monitor arm offers in an objective sense, we also assess the quality of the construction, the difficulty of the installation and the ease of use in practice.

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