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Finally updating my workstation
Artereis
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Now that I own a house, I'm finally looking at modernizing my workstation. I currently have 2 desks, one personal and one for work. In the interest of saving space I'm looking at consolidating onto one desk, either with a 4-monitor mount, or a tall 2-monitor that will hold them over two monitors actually sitting on my desk. I also want to migrate to a sit/stand desk. Does anyone have recommendations on monitor arms and/or desks? I don't have a budget in mind yet, so don't worry about price.
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For the desk itself, do you want something like a Versadesk that sits on your desktop, or do you want the legs of the desk to move? If you want the desk legs to move, I'd typically recommend Ikea, but they are out of stock for nearly everything right now.
You could also look into a larger L-shaped desk and have one set area for work; one for personal.
They look and review fantastically. I just keep looking at my 17 year old utility table that looks like it belongs at a conference badge station and think it's survived this long, it deserves to keep living.
It has been the standard here in Denmark for like 15 years or so, meaning every office desk at workplaces are like that only most are only use to fine tune the table height and then left like that. And that is despite it being tables adjusted by actuators and PC's suspended from them so it is easy to alter the height.
Now I am not saying there is not a benefit, however I recommend getting a really good chair and also just trying to build good habits like fx. short breaks now and then, placing things you need once in a while so you need to walk a few steps to get them and so on.
Now on arms I like Ergotron; https://ergotron.com/en-us/products/mounts/multi-monitor
Note that you can also find offering from big PC companies like Dell and others, only it is usually arms from companies like Ergotron however they are often sold at lower prices. So check what is on offer from the computer companies before pulling the trigger.
That is taking things to a now level. I have to make a suggestion.
Instead of getting new ones, then just get one - a big one.
Some 5½ years ago I took the plunge and replaced my 24"+27" setup with a 40" 4K monitor(No, not a TV) and I am loving it. The 40" 4K has the pixel density of a 27" 2560x1440 only having one big screen instead of two gives so much extra freedom, without the bezels in the middle it is just better - sort of like having a big desk vs. two smaller ones next to each other.
Pricing wise getting one instead of two amounts to about the same, two cheap ones is cheaper than a big one however two more pricey ones is more costly than a big one. Also you will some by only buying one arm.
Having one big monitor has the added benefit that it good for movies and very immersive for games.
If you I think you'll find that companies like Dell, HP and IBM sell arms that seems to be rebranded Ergotron ones and in some case the prices are significantly lower. Or at least they was when I looked a year or so ago.
Also I hear that the arms Amazon sell with their own Amazon Basics name one them are good value for money.
Finally something to consider. For a long time I was using two 27" at work where I had one oriented in portrait mode and the other in landscape mode, depending on what you having a monitor in portrait can be really neat. Some arms will let you rotate the monitors, most don't however I think it is worth considering. If the stands the monitors have now allow for it you could maybe test it out.
My only caution with those arms is if you plan to have the desk against a wall, there's nowhere for the arm to swing behind the desk, so the monitor will sit about half of your desk width off the wall.
It's the main reason I went with a static arm versus a movable one