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apple charges a thousand dollars for this so would you even believe me if i

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told you that all of this could be yours for hundreds of dollars less the concept

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is old but when we saw the new ergo duel from lg we questioned our own choices

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and just had to know could this double monitor plus ARM combo pack thing

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before it's even out of the packaging the lg ergo dual is checking boxes for

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me left and right get it that's a joke

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lots of screen real estate an included double monitor ARM two

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identical displays and they better be color matched good cable management and

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this is the monitors and all this is just the ARM funny thing even though i

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had never actually encountered one before bundle products like this do

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exist if you go looking for them dell and hp for example have a handful

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of options ranging from smaller lower resolution screens like this home office

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bundle all the way up to bigger higher resolution screens like this one from hp

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albeit at a much higher price of

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1200 us dollars uh it used to be that

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brand name monitor arms were like the norm and you would pay hundreds of

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dollars for a monitor ARM and that was like what you did from like kensington

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or whatever the case may be but i always just didn't bother because i was like

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that's stupid it comes with a way to mount it and if i need it up higher i'll

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put it on a book or something like i was always that guy and so i've

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only ever really like seen aliexpress grade monitor arms

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this is definitely built a little bit better like you could

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kill a man with it you know watch the monitor you could get really like

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nunchucks

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don't take away my fun back to business the clamp down here works like most

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monitor ARM clamps meaning that you'll need a fair bit of overhang on both the

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top and bottom of your desk in order to get it seated properly one thing that's

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kind of cool is it can actually open up wide enough to accommodate a desk this

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thick who has a desk like that anyway the

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point is if you have any sort of support bar or say for example a little i o

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thing like this one you might struggle to find enough

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clearance down there you know what funnily enough this has kind of a metal

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housing thing on the bottom of it that is possibly strong enough that i could

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actually open this up a little wider and clamp

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right to it but then i wouldn't be able to open this anymore so that is not actually a

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solution yeah i'm gonna go ahead and put it here okay this is interesting it's

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non-trivial but if you wanted to attach this to a third-party monitor you

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technically could you would just unclip this plastic thing probably remove this

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somehow and then you could go right through see that these bolt holes and

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just screw this plate into your other monitor not the best job of you know

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future proofing that i've ever seen but it's better than nothing the rest of

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it's really cool though even though it ships with 27-inch displays you can see

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that it's actually adjustable you've got this little

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thingamaboober right here that'll tell you where to position it that goes for

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both vertical and horizontal configurations

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pretty cool and then like i mentioned vertical and horizontal configurations

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it either goes on this way or this way and it's keyed so that you can't

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accidentally put it on upside down it'll

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prevent it from going on all the way what is this

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there's a bar it's like a control bar so you can move around oh that's cool

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get in there that's cool this bar serves two

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functions one is it allows you to move the completed assembly around with ease

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and two it allows you to play machine gunner simulator

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once you're done the monitors pop on a little something like this pretty

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standard uh fair okay here david i'll get you

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watch out for your LTT Store water bottle while you're swinging that around don't want to knock that over

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not that it isn't perfectly durable not to mention well insulated for hot or

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cold beverages

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not bad supports the weight just fine which

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i should hope it would they come in the same box there's a little bit of

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adjustment here just in case your desk isn't level or whatever which is a thing

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by the way so having a little bit of adjustment this way is good you can tilt

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it there you go oh you can't test it up very much so if you like to have your

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monitors low and kind of look down at them it might not be the best for that

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but you can tilt it down which would be really useful for a stacked

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configuration okay pluth had some notes about how it

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can be a little bit tricky to get it far enough away from you right so i

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could i could see that i could see that being a bit of an issue you kind of

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can't you'd have to have it off to the side which i guess isn't the end of the

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world because the monitors are look the monitors are so big that it's

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going to cover up the stand anyway but it's definitely something to be aware of

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as you set it up you're going to want this like kind of over here if you want it dead

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center and deep on your desk like that is probably how i want it something to

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note at this point in the game is that while you can swap between side by side

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center portrait or pivot pretty easily if you want to switch to a stacked

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layout after the fact one on top of the other it's going to take a fair bit more

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work you pretty much have to take everything off except the clamp to the

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desk rotate the bar and then put it back 90 degrees off and put the monitors on

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it's not hard it just does take some time and that's something you should be

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aware of

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i got it i got it don't help me did they think to

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provide a longer dp

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no not really what is this guy though

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this has got to be something to do with cable management for this

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not bad right like the LTT Store cable ties i could

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have used these ones but i used these ones and this gives us tons of options like i

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already mentioned that it's got usbc input with power delivery so as long as

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your laptop doesn't need more than 65 watts it's a single type c cable for

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charging and display output but this is even better each monitor has an HDMI

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input but you're going to want to use displayport because they've got

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displayport inputs and outputs so we can

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actually daisy chain them together as long as we have a GPU that supports that

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functionality meaning that it's just one cable either way to run both of these

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displays you can see here i didn't leave enough slack to

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plug the power into this display when i have it twisted around like this i'm

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gonna just fix that you're gonna wanna make sure you account for that however

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you've got it configured you can leave a little bit more slack than i have i went

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pretty tight but i leave that up to you

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these these are cool they include these extensions for the dc power plugs for

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the monitors so if you're using them without this ARM they're the right

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length and then if you're using them with the ARM you've got extra to route through all the cable management

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nonsense okay i think it's turning on now here we go

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ah menu we got nipple control here

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whoop all the usual oh all the very basic

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basic settings you might expect and

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there's one more thing that we might have to configure

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you actually have to turn on the displayport output otherwise it

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no worky that's awesome

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man if we had a wireless keyboard and mouse like

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show me the wires right that's pretty cool

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i'm gonna do my favorite test hold on let me do my favorite test i'm

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gonna take a white window oh my god

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gosh darn it i'm gonna take a white window

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that's pretty good like you know when you've got two monitors that are supposedly the same

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and one of them's blue and one of them's yellow like right out of the box you got

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to get where i am though because you're when you're looking at it from a different angle yeah you got to see them

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both head on it's not bad not perfect but not bad by this point in the video

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though you guys have probably realized that this is my first time hands on with

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the ergo dual so why don't we hear from the person who has actually spent the

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last few weeks daily driving it trying out some of the different configurations

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and um writing this to me i've got some of

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the floof's thoughts here handwritten because

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oh i see we took away your monitors um

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dear Linus i think the ergo dual will be a fine

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addition to most home or work offices the side by side wasn't for me i got

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some next strain looking from side to side even when i angled them in a little

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bit but the other options were pretty good center portrait is my preference at

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work and i use the same layout at home it's a bit tough to get the screens

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perfectly flush with one another and getting the displays recessed far enough

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can take some forethought depending on how low or how high you want them once

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you're finished shooting return them to my desk so they can become a permanent

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fixture there

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no i didn't hear the magic word

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all right but first let's see how it handles gaming ladies

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and gentlemen headshot headshot handshake oh god i'm reloading

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henshaw oh shoot

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i know what you're thinking it's not made for this Linus but it's also not

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entirely unreasonable for a casual video editor who might benefit from a setup

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like this to maybe want to play some games in their spare time and

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hertz is better than 60 even if it's not up there with the best gaming monitors

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today and it's not exactly cheap affordable but not cheap so no excuses

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image quality then in less action-oriented games is i would

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describe as fine but as soon as you fire up

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something faster paced i don't even need to measure the pixel

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response times to know that they're a little bit rough

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it also doesn't get very bright it's listed at 350 lumens but in the more

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accurate cinema mode it only saw 320 and

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270 between the two of them color accuracy isn't too bad with our brighter

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monitor hitting an average delta e of 2.6 and the dimmer unit hitting 3.4 with

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both of them having more trouble with yellows and greens than anything else

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and while they're not perfectly matched out of the box i'd say they're close

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enough to the point where an amateur photographer could use either of them to

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touch up their photos before posting to instagram the HDR is

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hdrant because it's only 350 nits even if you

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get everything they advertise on the box so considering how well Windows handles

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HDR you might as well just leave it turned off overall not bad but before

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you hit the buy button which we will have linked down below there are a few things we are not particularly fond of

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it is nice that lg used standard 100 millimeter vasa holes in those plates

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that go into the back of the monitors but with all the extra plastic on there

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it's not especially convenient to mount a new monitor to it and if you wanted to

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replace these with something new you have to consider that whoever your buyer

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is better have a dual monitor ARM of their own because they don't come with

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any out-of-the-box normal stands that you can include with them another thing

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is that according to one solitary review that we found on adorama it does not

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support dual screens on macOS 12 or 11

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so i guess you should test that

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horst we need some horsepower

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plug it in okay and then

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i you got a notification oh look at that

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yes

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all right so if we lies oh it's sideways hold on let me fix that

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but it worked well or wait hold on is this right

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what is this oh it's the ghost of max past

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well there's a here watch this

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is it is this right if you like i mean if you like this if

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you like double vision oh

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oh that's a bummer why would it behave like that so apparently macOS doesn't

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support mst really after all this time

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oh yeah i mean you can do it if it was it was a

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Thunderbolt screen would have been great it'd be nice to have a Thunderbolt screen um but

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yeah so do you we uh do we have another usbc cable because you could just plug

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it into the other one well yeah but that's oh my god okay all right thank

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you bye-bye so if you're a mac user this

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might not be the product for you and at 800 it might also not be for you if you

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don't like the price or you want more versatility in your monitor arms or

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whatever the case may be and the good news is that while we like this package

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and think it actually makes a ton of sense there are other options for gamers

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for example you could just as easily buy a gaming display and then one other

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cheaper one that you don't care about as much plus a more versatile ARM or even

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no ARM at all this huano dual stand 70

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bucks on sale at the time of filming four and a half stars with 10 000

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ratings though it should be noted it only holds up to 14.3 pounds per ARM

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compared to 20 on this one make sure you get subscribed by the way because we're

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you found a solid cheap monitor ARM that you think crushes the competition let us

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