Ergotron – LX Premium Monitor Arm, Single Monitor Desk Mount – fits Flat Curved Ultrawide Computer Monitors up to 34″, 3.2-11.3kg, VESA 75x75mm or 100x100mm – Tall Pole, Polished Aluminum (45-295-026)

I bought this after my previous monitor arm (Which was the first item that shows up when you search "Monitor Arm" on Amazon) which cost a reasonable £29.99 sheared in half dropping my monitor after only 18 months of use. The monitor wasnt even out of the rated weight and thankfully wasn't damaged, but a close call. I saw a Linus Tech Tips link for this arm and despite being a little put of by the price could see it was an excellent product and found a YouTube video on it that showed me the product. I wasn't wrong. Really Really happy with this! Very easy to assemble one piece has the tall pole attached to a desk clamp which I clamped to the table (It does include other optiona than the clamp if you want to drill and bolt this through the desk but can't see a need). Then another arm which is screwless slots onto that pole in seconds. Then I screwed my monitor onto the third arm with the 4 Vesa mounting screws and slipped that onto the arms and that was it. Done. You can adjust a silver ring on the tall pole with an allen key to move the bracket higher or lower on the pole and adjust the tension so your monitor is moveable but doesn't sag with a second allen key. Took us 10 minutes. Pros: Excellent Range of Movement best I've seen up and down quite high 360 rotation if your cables allow. Exceptionally sturdy and heavy build quality, will support almost any modern monitor weights you can throw at it. Good looking in Chrome and black. Easy assembly in 10 to 30 mins for a partially diasbled person with one helper. Range of mounting options included 4 thumbscrews to mount the screen nice touch if you want to remove screen often or normal screws for permanent use or more security. Cons: Potentially cost prohibitive for some people but you really do get what you pay for and if you can save or stretch for it, it really is worth it. Summary: An excellent design and high quality item which is a rarity amongst a sea of mass produced rubbish. Maybe the price should be a tiny bit lower but considering the sheer weight of metal used and the design time they must have put into it to keep it sleek yet functional and everything included is still worth it. If you need a monitor arm don't make my mistake with a cheaper option unless say you had a 15" LCD that weighs the same as a feather or don't value your screen and buy this one. Hope it helps!

Don't get the smaller one, even if you're not a tall person. The Tall Pole LX is much sturdier, with a larger base and a bigger and nicer pole. It is superior in every way and a much better investment for only a small extra cost (I have both the normal LX and the Tall Pole LX so I have compared both). You can use the Tall Pole LX on a standing desk for a wide range of movement and taller people can use it too. Get the tall pole!

Looked at the cheaper alternatives first but decided on Ergotron as I've used their stands before. I made the right choice. This is a very well constructed arm. Most of the construction being cast aluminium means it is not overly heavy in itself. The box it arrives in is surprisingly small. All the components are made to a high standard. You get a number of clearly labeled sealed bags containing fittings and allen keys. All you need to complete the assembly is a cross head/phillips/pozidrive/whatever screw driver. You also get a large visual assembly guide. There is a video showing how to assemble the arm properly on the Ergotron website, http://www.ergotron.com/tabid/143/language/en-GB/default.aspx. That said, assembly is straightforward. Study the instructions and take it slowly, step by step. Mount and secure the upright pole first then on a flat surface attach the monitor to the relevant arm. I had to release all the tension on the mounting plate, see instructions, to be able to do so. After that it's simply a matter of slotting the two arms onto their respective joints, then adjusting tensions. Now make sure, before you proceed an further, that your monitor power and video cables are long enough, with about 4-6 inches over for safety, to run through the cable tidies provided. Now the most important part of the assembly, setting the tensions of the various joints. This is vital, if you want the arm to work properly and safely. The swivel joints are tensioned using tiny grub screws which you adjust using the small allen key provided. Tighten them carefully and slowly till the joint just stops moving, then very slowly untightened in small increments till the movement feels smooth but with slight resistance. Do not over tighten these grub screws. If you do and strip the thread you won't be able to tension the joint. Plus the hole will need to be re-threaded and a new grub screw fitted. Which will cost and mean you can't use the arm. The same care is needed adjusting the spring tensions on the monitor mounting plate and arm. The monitor plate I untightened all the way, as the spring is very strong and supports my 24in monitor without any problem or undue movement. Untighten them till they feel too slack them very gradually retighten till you have smooth movement with slight resistance. People have said before about this arm that you get what you pay for. That is a fact, if you want a strong, highly adjustable and, more importantly, safe monitor arm, buy this. My neck pain has now gone, as I can finally get the monitor at a comfortable height. After hours wasted looking at websites that tell you how to adjust monitor/chair height and getting nowhere. There is also now a large area in front of me that has been freed up and I can move the monitor back out of the way. Which means increased work space that wasn't available before.

I bought this arm to mount my 40" Philips 4065UC monitor. It's a big screen and fairly heavy, so I wanted a good quality arm to mount it on. There's no doubt that the Ergotron is exactly that. It's fairly easy to set up, looks incredibly substantial and is clearly of superior quality. I have no concerns about its ability to reliably hold the screen. Once mounted, the screen is easy to adjust, featuring swivel, rotate and tilt mechanisms that can all be activated with a minimum of pressure. It's very handy having a screen on an arm like this, especially when you have multiple monitors as I do. There's no doubt that this is the Mercedes of monitor arms. So why only four stars? Well, I regret spending so much on it. Yes it's substantial and solid, and looks like a top quality device. But once installed you'll never actually see it, so its external apperance is irrelevant, except for reassuring you when you first get it out of the packaging and set it up. I have bought a couple of other monitor arms since the Ergotron, and the others I purchased were a fraction of this price. They didn't look as good, they were perhaps a little more fiddly to set up, but looking back at it now I really can't justify spending over £125 on this when there are other products available that do basically the same job for a third or even a quarter of that price. If you have a particularly expensive screen and want absolute assurance that you've got the best arm available, and money isn't really an issue, then definitely buy the Ergotron. For everyone else, I'd strongly suggest looking at cheaper alternatives. They might take you an extra 30 minutes to set up, and won't give you that warm fuzzy 'quality' feeling during the hour you can actually see them, but most of them will do a fine job of mounting your monitor and providing the standard adjustments, and you'll save a significant amount of money. Maybe the best use of this Ergotron is as a gift - if I was giving someone an arm for a birthday or Christmas, then the extra feeling of quality would definitely be warranted. For myself though, I'll definitely not be spending so much again.

I have the Wacom Flexarm, which was made in collaboration with Ergotron, so I'm aware of the quality this brand provides with their products. Having said that, it's not cheap and so I initially bought a £30 equivalent. Needless to say, it was cheap, didn't hold the monitor up at a decent height and was sent back within a day. This arrived the quality was just mindblowing. Actual metal parts as opposed to cheap plastic. It puts my Wacom monitor arm to shame in terms of how high it goes. Yes, it's over £140 for a monitor arm but you truly do get what you pay for.

Good quality arm, easy to setup with free movement. Looks good too. I have two of these holding a 26 inch monitor each. i preferred the flexibility rather than have a dual arm. The monitor can go back against a wall with small amount of space,so is nearly flush. make sure you tighten all the Allen screws to your desired resistance. Also, this is the longer pole - they do a shorter one. The longer one obviously means you can put the arm up higher.

I don't have a large desk but need computer screen and plenty of space for writing paper, calculation sheets and reference books. The arm allows me to be 'close to' the screen yet have space beneath it. It was easy to assemble and the tall pole is fantastic. The bottom of my 22inch screen is a clear 10inches above the desk and I could raise it to 16 inches above. I find the screen (arm) easy to adjust; simple to push away, raise or lower. I have a wall to the left side of the mount and simply arranged for the arm to swing to the right side when pushed away - no bashing the wall. The desk clamp is equally robust and there's even a mount supplied that you can pass through a 'cable hole' in most office desk furniture. I've not used that so can't comment as to whether you could pass cables through in addition to having the mount. I spent more time trying to persuade the mounting screw to come free from my LCD screen's original stand than putting this class stand together. By installing this I worked out why I had eye pain - my screen was too far away. These are the reasons I 'love' this item.

One of the strongest arms you can buy, for larger monitors, and very flashy looks. Immediately obvious that it is a high quality product. The arm will support monitors up to 25lbs and 34”. The tall pole is about twice the length of the normal desk mount and it increases the height you can set the monitor at by about seven inches. The arm, shown in the photos, that sits on the pole is actually optional. You can choose whether to fit that or not. This is where the long pole comes in to play really because that first arm adds four inches or so to the monitor height so if you choose not to fit that arm then you will most likely need the longer pole to achieve a good height for the monitor. The normal arm puts the monitor centre at about 15 inches above the desk max so the long mount so this increases that to about 22 inches max. However I found the arm was most happy at a little less than maximum. The pole comes with two mounting options. Through a hole or a table top clamp. The “through a hole” mount requires an 8 to 51mm hole, and can manage a desk up to 57mm thick. The clamp can manage up to 60mm thick desks. The through the hole method there is a steel plate that fit underneath the desk that can be screwed to the desk I used the clamp and found that in fact it would go a little further than 60mm, I measured 65mm. The one annoyance with the arm is that there is a small steel shim underneath the screw adjustment for the arms. The shims measure about half an inch square. During my experimenting these kept falling out when I disassembled the stand. Just keep an eye out for them. There is a notch cut in to the aluminium behind the hex screws and they slot in with the curve facing away from the screw. You have to remove the inner plastic sleeve to see the slot clearly although you can see it if you turn the arm upside down. I did discover that you need the tension higher than you probably think you do! If you gently rock the table back and forth, if the tension is not high enough then the monitor will lose height. Adjust the tension until this doesn’t happen. I also found that it was much safer to attach the second arm to the monitor before you fit it to the rest of the arm. It’s just easier to do this than to try to fit the monitor afterwards. Oh and be careful when you are DIY’ing it, aluminium marks easily. Something I really liked were the screws that it uses to attach to the monitor. These are tool-less, which makes it a lot easier...no screwdriver to drop. Ordinary screws are provided if you prefer the higher security. In the end I actually returned the product. The reason was that the monitor just wobbled too much as I typed. Looking at the stand I realised this was the “ball joint” directly behind the monitor. It just isn’t rigid enough and I suspect that is because it’s too small. The entire monitor wobbled clockwise anti-clockwise. So no, after all that messing around, it didn’t suite me. Personally I think one of these wall mounted would suit me much better. That way there is no reason why it should wobble. If the wobble bothers you then don't bother, but if you are fine with it then you could do a lot worse than this great looking stand.

Perfect monitor arm for the Dell 49" U4919DW

Se gana mucho espacio en el escritorio. Además, con este soporte, uno no tiene que comprar un escritorio "caro" para poder trabajar de pie.

Después de usar los pies de mesa de los propios monitores y soportes económicos que nunca me dejan el monitor donde quiero o se manejan fatal y terminaba con molestias en el cuello, decidí probar con los Ergotron. La calidad de materiales es brutal, seguramente para toda la vida. El brazo se mueve de lujo, puedo mover la pantalla hacia cualquier lado, incluso girarla o inclinarla, sin esfuerzo. La instalación está chupada, miré las instrucciones ilustradas por si acaso, pero vamos, que solo hay que fijar la pinza a la mesa, fijar la pantalla al brazo y colocar el brazo en la barra vertical. No hay que hacer nada raro, cero complicaciones, viene medio montado. Todas las herramientas que pudiera necesitar vienen incluidas. El diseño del brazo es muy bonito y elegante, de hecho Ergotron suele usarse en entorno profesionales de todo tipo y se nota. Viene preparado para dejar los cables recogidos u ocultos. Desde que lo estoy usando estoy más cómodo ante la pantalla del ordenador y he evitado molestias en el cuello. Si por cualquier motivo un día me siento más cómodo elevando en monitor 1 centímetro, lo hago en 1 segundo. Si necesito editar una imagen con mucho detalle, me acerco el monitor justo ante mis ojos y listo. Luego lo dejo a la distancia recomendada y sigo. Durante todos estos movimientos, el soporte ni se cimbrea, sólido como una roca. Muy recomendable para ganar en ergonomía y salud trabajando con el ordenador, sale rentable.

I have had the previous version of this mount for more than 6 years and it has never let me down. I bought this for a second monitor and I am glad to say the quality is still there. This is a versatile, well built and good looking desk mount. It feels solid even with an extra extension arm added. As a side note the underside covers on the extension arms are a bit tricky to put back into place when you channel several cables in them. Another side note, the pole/ extensions are compatible with other ergotron products like the laptop holder. This is one of those rices that will always be in your setup no matter how many computers/monitors you blow through.

This mount is perfect for what I bought it for - having a lot of versatile movement of my monitor, so that it can be adjusted frequently. This mount is not a set-and-leave type, where you need to set it once and stick with that location. You can adjust it as much as you want, and it holds position. The only adjustment that may take some time to make is the position of the arm on the pole, because a ring underneath the arm must be adjusted to maintain the height position. However, the height range without adjusting the arm is already pretty significant, and I do not see that it would be necessary to adjust the arm height on the pole very often. Adjustments are smooth and they stick - I do not have problems with the monitor falling out of position after I adjust it. The other reason that I picked this particular unit (besides the ability to adjust frequently and easily) is the tall pole. This provides a larger range of movement, and if your monitor is on the upper end of the rated size scale, you will probably need it. I was really happy about this choice, and although I have not really needed that extra height yet, I am really happy that I have the potential for it. When the mount arrived in the box, my first impression was that the parts were all solid and well-made, heavy construction. Assembly was really easy (no-brainer) and when put together, it was clear that the quality construction was as solid as I thought, and all parts worked smoothly together and fit easily. Ergotron did not stinge on any of the parts - they are all solid, good quality. I mounted it to the desk with the clamp, instead of drilling holes, because the desk will be moved to a new apartment soon, and I want to have flexibility of placement in the new place. The clamp provided good stability for my monitor, and I have had no problems with vibrations or the clamp slipping while I am adjusting. I may leave it in the clamp even after moving, since I have not had any problems with it. I was torn about purchasing the dual mount so that I could have the flexibility of setting up dual monitors in the future, but ultimately decided not to. Now that I have the mount, I realize that I can buy the same mount again and mount both arms on a single pole to achieve the same setup as the dual mount system. Or I can set the mounts side by side. So, I feel I made the right choice and I am not limited. Overall summary: highly recommend! Pros: quality parts, solid construction, easy assembly, easy adjustment, adjustments hold after you make them, extra height range with tall pole, choice between clamp or through-desk mounting, rotates freely between portrait and landscape viewing (fun fact - this rotational direction is not limited at all except by your cables that will wind up if you continue to rotate - you could keep rotating indefinitely if your monitor were cordless). Cons: takes a little more time to adjust the height position of the arm on the pole (this is no big deal for me). Also, having a wall directly behind the mount will limit movement away from you to some degree, because the arm will be restricted by the wall - you will not be able to retract it as far against the wall as you would if the desk were free-standing. However, it seems obvious that you will not be able to achieve the full range of movement if there are obstructions.