apple charges a thousand dollars for this so would you even believe me if i
told you that all of this could be yours for hundreds of dollars less the concept
is old but when we saw the new ergo duel from lg we questioned our own choices
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
me left and right get it that's a joke
lots of screen real estate an included double monitor ARM two
identical displays and they better be color matched good cable management and
usbc power delivery for the odd laptop that might roll through your workspace
this is the monitors and all this is just the ARM funny thing even though i
had never actually encountered one before bundle products like this do
exist if you go looking for them dell and hp for example have a handful
of options ranging from smaller lower resolution screens like this home office
bundle all the way up to bigger higher resolution screens like this one from hp
albeit at a much higher price of
1200 us dollars uh it used to be that
brand name monitor arms were like the norm and you would pay hundreds of
dollars for a monitor ARM and that was like what you did from like kensington
or whatever the case may be but i always just didn't bother because i was like
that's stupid it comes with a way to mount it and if i need it up higher i'll
put it on a book or something like i was always that guy and so i've
only ever really like seen aliexpress grade monitor arms
this is definitely built a little bit better like you could
kill a man with it you know watch the monitor you could get really like
nunchucks
don't take away my fun back to business the clamp down here works like most
monitor ARM clamps meaning that you'll need a fair bit of overhang on both the
top and bottom of your desk in order to get it seated properly one thing that's
kind of cool is it can actually open up wide enough to accommodate a desk this
thick who has a desk like that anyway the
point is if you have any sort of support bar or say for example a little i o
thing like this one you might struggle to find enough
clearance down there you know what funnily enough this has kind of a metal
housing thing on the bottom of it that is possibly strong enough that i could
actually open this up a little wider and clamp
right to it but then i wouldn't be able to open this anymore so that is not actually a
solution yeah i'm gonna go ahead and put it here okay this is interesting it's
non-trivial but if you wanted to attach this to a third-party monitor you
technically could you would just unclip this plastic thing probably remove this
somehow and then you could go right through see that these bolt holes and
just screw this plate into your other monitor not the best job of you know
future proofing that i've ever seen but it's better than nothing the rest of
it's really cool though even though it ships with 27-inch displays you can see
that it's actually adjustable you've got this little
thingamaboober right here that'll tell you where to position it that goes for
both vertical and horizontal configurations
pretty cool and then like i mentioned vertical and horizontal configurations
it either goes on this way or this way and it's keyed so that you can't
accidentally put it on upside down it'll
prevent it from going on all the way what is this
there's a bar it's like a control bar so you can move around oh that's cool
get in there that's cool this bar serves two
functions one is it allows you to move the completed assembly around with ease
and two it allows you to play machine gunner simulator
once you're done the monitors pop on a little something like this pretty
standard uh fair okay here david i'll get you
watch out for your LTT Store water bottle while you're swinging that around don't want to knock that over
not that it isn't perfectly durable not to mention well insulated for hot or
cold beverages
not bad supports the weight just fine which
i should hope it would they come in the same box there's a little bit of
adjustment here just in case your desk isn't level or whatever which is a thing
by the way so having a little bit of adjustment this way is good you can tilt
it there you go oh you can't test it up very much so if you like to have your
monitors low and kind of look down at them it might not be the best for that
but you can tilt it down which would be really useful for a stacked
configuration okay pluth had some notes about how it
can be a little bit tricky to get it far enough away from you right so i
could i could see that i could see that being a bit of an issue you kind of
can't you'd have to have it off to the side which i guess isn't the end of the
world because the monitors are look the monitors are so big that it's
going to cover up the stand anyway but it's definitely something to be aware of
as you set it up you're going to want this like kind of over here if you want it dead
center and deep on your desk like that is probably how i want it something to
note at this point in the game is that while you can swap between side by side
center portrait or pivot pretty easily if you want to switch to a stacked
layout after the fact one on top of the other it's going to take a fair bit more
work you pretty much have to take everything off except the clamp to the
desk rotate the bar and then put it back 90 degrees off and put the monitors on
it's not hard it just does take some time and that's something you should be
aware of
i got it i got it don't help me did they think to
provide a longer dp
no not really what is this guy though
this has got to be something to do with cable management for this
not bad right like the LTT Store cable ties i could
have used these ones but i used these ones and this gives us tons of options like i
already mentioned that it's got usbc input with power delivery so as long as
your laptop doesn't need more than 65 watts it's a single type c cable for
charging and display output but this is even better each monitor has an HDMI
input but you're going to want to use displayport because they've got
displayport inputs and outputs so we can
actually daisy chain them together as long as we have a GPU that supports that
functionality meaning that it's just one cable either way to run both of these
displays you can see here i didn't leave enough slack to
plug the power into this display when i have it twisted around like this i'm
gonna just fix that you're gonna wanna make sure you account for that however
you've got it configured you can leave a little bit more slack than i have i went
pretty tight but i leave that up to you
these these are cool they include these extensions for the dc power plugs for
the monitors so if you're using them without this ARM they're the right
length and then if you're using them with the ARM you've got extra to route through all the cable management
nonsense okay i think it's turning on now here we go
ah menu we got nipple control here
whoop all the usual oh all the very basic
basic settings you might expect and
there's one more thing that we might have to configure
you actually have to turn on the displayport output otherwise it
no worky that's awesome
man if we had a wireless keyboard and mouse like
show me the wires right that's pretty cool
i'm gonna do my favorite test hold on let me do my favorite test i'm
gonna take a white window oh my god
gosh darn it i'm gonna take a white window
that's pretty good like you know when you've got two monitors that are supposedly the same
and one of them's blue and one of them's yellow like right out of the box you got
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
both head on it's not bad not perfect but not bad by this point in the video
though you guys have probably realized that this is my first time hands on with
the ergo dual so why don't we hear from the person who has actually spent the
last few weeks daily driving it trying out some of the different configurations
and um writing this to me i've got some of
the floof's thoughts here handwritten because
oh i see we took away your monitors um
dear Linus i think the ergo dual will be a fine
addition to most home or work offices the side by side wasn't for me i got
some next strain looking from side to side even when i angled them in a little
bit but the other options were pretty good center portrait is my preference at
work and i use the same layout at home it's a bit tough to get the screens
perfectly flush with one another and getting the displays recessed far enough
can take some forethought depending on how low or how high you want them once
you're finished shooting return them to my desk so they can become a permanent
fixture there
no i didn't hear the magic word
all right but first let's see how it handles gaming ladies
and gentlemen headshot headshot handshake oh god i'm reloading
henshaw oh shoot
i know what you're thinking it's not made for this Linus but it's also not
entirely unreasonable for a casual video editor who might benefit from a setup
like this to maybe want to play some games in their spare time and
hertz is better than 60 even if it's not up there with the best gaming monitors
today and it's not exactly cheap affordable but not cheap so no excuses
image quality then in less action-oriented games is i would
describe as fine but as soon as you fire up
something faster paced i don't even need to measure the pixel
response times to know that they're a little bit rough
it also doesn't get very bright it's listed at 350 lumens but in the more
accurate cinema mode it only saw 320 and
270 between the two of them color accuracy isn't too bad with our brighter
monitor hitting an average delta e of 2.6 and the dimmer unit hitting 3.4 with
both of them having more trouble with yellows and greens than anything else
and while they're not perfectly matched out of the box i'd say they're close
enough to the point where an amateur photographer could use either of them to
touch up their photos before posting to instagram the HDR is
hdrant because it's only 350 nits even if you
get everything they advertise on the box so considering how well Windows handles
HDR you might as well just leave it turned off overall not bad but before
you hit the buy button which we will have linked down below there are a few things we are not particularly fond of
it is nice that lg used standard 100 millimeter vasa holes in those plates
that go into the back of the monitors but with all the extra plastic on there
it's not especially convenient to mount a new monitor to it and if you wanted to
replace these with something new you have to consider that whoever your buyer
is better have a dual monitor ARM of their own because they don't come with
any out-of-the-box normal stands that you can include with them another thing
is that according to one solitary review that we found on adorama it does not
support dual screens on macOS 12 or 11
so i guess you should test that
horst we need some horsepower
plug it in okay and then
i you got a notification oh look at that
yes
all right so if we lies oh it's sideways hold on let me fix that
but it worked well or wait hold on is this right
what is this oh it's the ghost of max past
well there's a here watch this
is it is this right if you like i mean if you like this if
you like double vision oh
oh that's a bummer why would it behave like that so apparently macOS doesn't
support mst really after all this time
oh yeah i mean you can do it if it was it was a
Thunderbolt screen would have been great it'd be nice to have a Thunderbolt screen um but
yeah so do you we uh do we have another usbc cable because you could just plug
it into the other one well yeah but that's oh my god okay all right thank
you bye-bye so if you're a mac user this
might not be the product for you and at 800 it might also not be for you if you
don't like the price or you want more versatility in your monitor arms or
whatever the case may be and the good news is that while we like this package
and think it actually makes a ton of sense there are other options for gamers
for example you could just as easily buy a gaming display and then one other
cheaper one that you don't care about as much plus a more versatile ARM or even
no ARM at all this huano dual stand 70
bucks on sale at the time of filming four and a half stars with 10 000
ratings though it should be noted it only holds up to 14.3 pounds per ARM
compared to 20 on this one make sure you get subscribed by the way because we're
going to be doing a whole round up of cheap monitor arms off of like amazon
and stuff that you will not want to miss just like you don't want to miss our
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