My setup at work hasn't changed much in a long time. I've got the same chair,
the same custom desk PC, and even the same peripherals that I've had for years
now because once I find something that I'm comfortable with, I generally like
to just stick with it. The one exception is my monitor. Over the years, I've gone
from 16x9 to ultra wide to even ultra
wider. And as you guys can see here, I am still struggling to fit all the
things that I do on a very regular basis onto a single display. So today I have
the solution. This is actually something that I've wanted to do for quite some
time and I'm finally pulling the trigger. I am going dual monitor, but
not in the way you might think. I am going dual
super mega ultra wide
49 inch monitor. Oh yeah.
And they're going to be stacked. On the face of it, an upgrade like this is
pretty simple. You open up the monitor, chuck it on the desk, plug in a display
cable, and you're pretty much good to go. The problem is that, as you guys can
see, fitting two of these side by side
on my desk is not going to work very well.
Fortunately, we're going to try this, which I think
will work, even though it's not technically rated for the full weight of these two displays. Caution, heavy.
All right, so let's start by opening up
the monitor. Unlike some of the earlier 49 inch like extra wide monitors, this
one has a very similar pixel density to
the original 3440x440 ultrawide. So, because it's even wider,
it's still 1440 pixels high, but it's
actually 5120 pixels wide. So, it's kind
of the equivalent of 5K except sliced in
half down the middle. That gives you effectively both the resolution and area
of two 27 inch 1440p monitors side by
side with no bezel down the middle. It occurs to me I don't actually need the
stand. One moment please.
Oh, touched my face. Sanitizing time.
You already touched it. It's too late. And I might touch it again. So I'm going
to sanitize. Oh man, these things are
beasts. Oh boy. It's really nice that most curved monitors these days ah still
managed to include a standard base amount because there was a while there
where you had to get like weirdo special adapters that you had to purchase
assuming you could even find them. And it's easy to say, well curved monitors
are stupid. Why don't you just get a non-curved monitor? But the thing is
when something is this wide, the curve
actually does make a difference. So it'll help with any color shift that you
might get. I mean, it's an IPS panel, so it won't be a ton, but you will get a
little bit. And also just makes it a little bit more natural, so you're
looking head onto the display even when you turn your head, which you'll do.
This is really heavy. I need to put this down. Ah, okay.
None of this has been a surprise so far, though. That's the exact same monitor I'm already using. The X Factor is the
Vivo monitor table stand. It's rated for
27 in stacked on top. These are basically 27s, but two of them. So, as
long as their weight restriction here has some buffer built into it, I figure
ah, we should be all right. Nuts down.
Where'd this come from? Must go the other way then.
The slotted ones are here. So, unless you want it to be able to slide out, but
then I guess you anchor it. You know what? I'll look at the instructions. Oh, I missed a step.
Gee, pole cover. I don't see an obvious way to detach the plate from the mount
here. So, yeah, I really think it'd be easier to slide the monitor on. Then
again, maybe not. I don't know. It's going to be so heavy by the time I'm doing that. There really doesn't seem to
be an industry standard for who is supposed to provide the screws for a
vase mount. Here, LG has included the screws, but I've seen lots of monitors
that don't include the screws. I'm going to use LG's screws. They're black and
they match. Oh, shoot. I forgot the washers.
Does it matter? We're going to put the washers on. Okay,
this here. This thing weighs about 30
lb.
Ow, my finger. You know, maybe there's something to be said for Apple's
thousand stand. I don't know if I can wrench this any tighter. Okay.
Oh boy. Oh man, I'm cranking this so hard. But I'm worried it's going to
shear off.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, I think it's holding. Wow, that was
an uncomfortable amount of pressure. Time for the tricky part now.
So long there, buddy. Nice knowing you. Wow. Where am I going to put my webcam?
Okay, this time I'm going to crank this mount
while it's easy to get at cuz we are way over the rated weight.
How are you going to do that? You need two people, I feel. No, I got this. Don't worry.
Oh my god. So long. Yeah, that's what she said.
Oh no, the plastic insert is coming out, but it's it's on there too much to
easily get it off now.
Hopefully I don't get guillotined here. Oh,
okay. That's heavy. Maybe that's our thumbnail. Okay, come
on. Okay, both of the plastic inserts came out.
These suck and they're bad and I hate them. Now they're back in there. But
like what keeps them in there? I don't know. Do you need help?
No, I'm good. I got this. I got this.
Look. Oh, the people paid good money to watch me struggle. Don't worry about it. It's
fine. was flexing a lot.
I went back. Are you okay? If you need to take a break, you should take a break.
One second. And if we need to switch to a lighter camera, we should switch to a lighter
camera. I'm fine. I'm fine. Dennis, making fine adjustments to this
is not going to be possible. Oh, come on. Stop.
No. What are you stuck on? Keep getting my fingers crushed. That's going on
easy. Are they on there properly? You feel
that? Do they look like they're on there
properly? I thought you going to say like we're done. Like
no. Jake said even for his 34s he had to
like crank the Jesus out of these. Ow. I
just bruised my palm. Wait, what? What is it even hitting? Okay, well that's
progress. Hey, credit to LG for the packing material for this monitor. And
if you think this looks horrible, you should have seen what Jake had to do for 16K gaming. That was 16 monitors. I
think the whole stand is leaning forward.
I think the whole desk is leaning forward. Oh my god.
Can we switch to a lighter camera? It's not on right. Recording.
So, we're down to our fifth string camera operator. Don't move anything heavy. And go fill
out the form. Dennis, he hurt his back.
He was laughing at me. That's why that's how he did it. Oh, yeah. Well,
so if you guys notice, the camera's a little
Yeah. Sorry, guys. That's That's Riley. He's helping us out
here. Well, that looks crazy. You know what? I'm going to run my
DisplayPort and power cables first because this is uh going to be
challenging. I didn't cut an entry slit for a second monitor here. Ow. Oh, man.
Riddle me this, Riley. Should I go with them not quite buted together, but with
the top one angled down at me a little bit, even though that means a slightly
bigger gap here? I mean, I feel like you probably should
angle it down a bit, eh? How triggered am I going to get by this gap, though?
I'm going to butt them up together. Yeah, tightness. That's my specialty.
Damn. That's what I like. Settling.
It'll do. Yeah. You need help. You need help. No, I can move it.
Okay. Don't move anything heavy. Oh god, that's heavy. Okay.
You want me to move the keyboard? Hopefully it won't scratch the glass. No. No. I got this. I got this. I got
this. Oh. Oh. Twist a little.
The people paid good money to see me struggle.
And right now they can't see me cuz I'm behind the monitor. But oh, I assure you
the struggle is real. I think they just need to
like that. There's a chance it's still aligned.
Oh. Oh, that's good. That's where the DP goes in. This is where the second DP
goes in. I can't get behind it to lift it, you know. Uh, this is where you
could almost need uh use help of some kind.
Okay, way back. Yeah, you know, it held uh 50% more than
its rated weight. You know what's funny is I believe LG
actually moved the nipple from the bottom here to over here in case of
installations like this. And I laughed at them at CES. I laughed at them. I was
like, "Nobody's going to do that."
Now, all I need to do is get all my Windows arranged. Now LG and there
actually third parties that have window management programs that allow you to
split your screens up into many more zones than the normal window snap where
you just or arrow snap or whatever they call it now where you just kind of go
like that. But in the meantime, this is
where I kind of expect things to land. So I want something for my Microsoft
Teams chat. Yes, we use Microsoft Teams. No, it's not perfect, but um well, we're
using it uh here. whatever I'm currently
writing or uh reviewing someone else, you know, a web browser for maybe I'm
doing some research or browsing the forum to see what people are saying over
there. Uh here where I can go through all of our video ideas. This is a much
older version of this sheet that I can show you guys because it's all stuff
that we did ages ago. And then up here, this is this is the big one. being able
to stretch out Trello here so that I can
see every stage of the production queue.
Um, and all the assignments. I can't show you the writer ones cuz there's a lot of projects that we haven't released
yet. Better make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any of them. But, uh, being able to see what everyone's
supposed to be working on all at once and then organize things into it without
moving back and forth between different browser Windows and stuff like that.
Really very excited about this. I'm not
100% sure on the ergonomics. Could I
have just put a TV on my desk? Yes. But damn it, this is Linus Tech
Tips. Okay. It's not how we do things around here. Here
we we mount our webcams
where I'm going to end up with the solution from all those laptops. Put it up here
and point it up the nose. No. Oh, that's going to be awful. Now that
you're done watching this video, you might actually want to check out the video where I tried out a 55 in OLED
monitor. Well, TV, I mean the color monitor, whatever. 55 in OLED display as
a gaming monitor. It's pretty cool. It's from Alienware. Uh, go watch that video.
It's a good video.