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even if you've just recently bought the monitor of your dreams

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one thing you may not have put a lot of thought into is your monitor stand and

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who can blame you right it's just something that holds up the screen but then you set it up and you realize that

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the one that came with your monitor barely allows you to adjust the position

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in you're you're left having to hunch down like quasimodo just to see properly

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or you prop your monitor up on top of a stack of fitness books that you've never

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gotten around to reading because you're still training through your steam library so this is where an aftermarket

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monitor stand is gonna come in handy but these run the gamut from around thirty

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dollars to a thousand if you wanna buy that contraption that apple's trying to

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sell so what should you look out for when buying a monitor stand and why in

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the world does apple think it can charge more than an iphone for one well before

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you even start looking for a monitor stand you'll want to make sure that the monitor itself has something called a

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vase amount as this will make your life much easier this is a standard pattern

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of mounting holes that are incorporated directly into the monitor's frame that

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will ensure that your display is compatible with the vast majority of

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stands on the market it's not uncommon though for monitors especially cheaper

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ones to come without a vase amount so definitely verify this before doing

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anything else your next step should be to think about what you need out of a

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monitor stand do you need just something that's sturdier than the flimsy piece of

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plastic that came in the monitor box if so you can probably get away with a

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cheap freestanding stand many of these will not only give your monitor plenty

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of support but will let you adjust the height the viewing angle and even let

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you orient the monitor in portrait mode if you need to view lots of vertically

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organized information at once like like a group chat

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really important group chat but let's say that you're also concerned about

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saving space maybe you have a small desk or or a multi-monitor setup and you just

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can't have one or more freestanding solutions hogging all your real estate

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in this case you have a few alternatives one is to get a wall mount which can

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either attach to your wall and leave your monitor locked in one position or

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allow your screen to protrude off of an ARM and be adjusted as you see fit of

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course the downside is that you'll need to drill holes into your wall and

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depending on where you mount your screen you don't want to have a super heavy

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monitor ripping hole in the sheetrock that you'll have to explain to your

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landlord but the upside is that you won't take up any desk space whatsoever

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but if you don't want to mess around with installing a mount on your wall you

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can go with a clamp style monitor stand that attaches to the side of your desk

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minimizing your display's footprint there are also clamps that go through

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your desk for added stability though you'll either need to have a hole

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already built into your desk or of course bust out the power drill and make one

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yourself but the nice thing about these clap mounts other than stability and

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making your workspace look like your monitors are being held up by

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cybernetic robot arms is that many of them are built to hold more than one

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display at a time so instead of having half your desk taken up by large monitor

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bases you can fit three screens and take

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up about the same amount of space as a coffee mug whatever option you go with

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be sure to check out how much weight each stand is rated for and exactly how

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you'll be able to adjust your displays but hold on a minute because even some

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of the nicest triple monitor clap mounts on amazon can be had for around 100 to

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150 bucks so why in the world is apple

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charging a thousand dollars for a simple freestanding mount with fairly standard

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tilt and rotation features well there's actually nothing special about it

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seeing as it's being paired with a 5 000 monitor apple may have thought another

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grand for a stand would be small potatoes for the folks in the market for

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a display like that but regardless of whether this is an apple ploy to create

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another over engineered pricey to repair product or just them thinking their

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design is actually worth that much our recommendation would be to just go with

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the also overpriced vase amount

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or maybe just lean it against something with some velcro

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