klein2 blog » 30″ http://www.klein2.de Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 First of two Ergotron LX arms arrived and installed http://www.klein2.de/2010/04/17/first-of-two-ergotron-lx-arms-arrived-and-installed/ http://www.klein2.de/2010/04/17/first-of-two-ergotron-lx-arms-arrived-and-installed/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:51:00 +0000 Dennis Klein http://blog.klein2.de/?p=215 Saturday morning, 10am, DHL Express rang the doorbell. I’ve just ordered 2x Ergotron LX arms for my 2 of my 22″ displays that were standing around. Having 30″ is great and it’s not really the screen real estate that brought me to the idea to attach the 22″ displays (again) on the left and right. It’s more that my desktop always looked chaotic and very confusing. Sure – on OS X you can use Exposé but that doesn’t really help, right?

So I’ve unboxed the large package – surprise – it’s only 1 arm inside? Uh? Need to call Amazon and paid 6€ for Express delivery and the deliver just 1/2 of the order? ;)


 

The installation was VERY easy, just attach the base to the desk, put arm 1 into the base, put the 2nd arm with the already mounted 100mm (or 75mm VESA) into this one and you’re done. Yes – there’s a good way to move the cables through the arms, haven’t done that yet because I wanted the see the results. I’m using the Samsung 226BW in pivot mode, means 90° (or 270°) rotated. I had my concerns because of the viewing angle, but it’s ok. Not good for design, but for that, I’ve my 30″ Apple Cinema Display ;)

First resumé: Worth the money! Thanks for showing me great Ergotrons @stefandidak

Ciao
Dennis 

Update on this: With moving to a glass desk, I returned the Ergotron arms to Amazon. They were very good, but I was just too scared that I could break the glass.

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