Is there a monitor arm that like... moves better than others? The reviews I'm reading are all about stability and whatnot and they honestly all seem roughly the same as long as you don't have a super heavy monitor. I can't find reviews that really address how nicely they move, so I'm wondering if there are any that have a motion that's better or smoother than others? I'm willing to throw a reasonable amount of money at this.
Because I adjust how I sit a lot (and I have an adjustable height desk that I move up and down a lot as a result). I move my monitor around a lot - Up, down, forward, backward, tilting, etc, many times a day. And the cheap arm I got from Amazon is fine, but not perfect. Here are the things that bug me, in order of importance.
1. It doesn't move like... as smoothly as I would like. You have to waggle it in to place, it's hard to get it in exactly the place I want it both forward and backward and up and down (it's far from impossible, but it's extra fiddling that I just don't want to do so many times a day). You have to sort of move it in to move it up and down, etc.
2. The weight adjustment screw thingies loosen over time. So every 3-4 weeks I have to re-tighten them because otherwise my monitor won't stay pointing forwards.
3. The only way to move it is to grab the sides of my monitor. My monitor is great in a lot of ways, but the buttons for controlling monitor settings run up the side of the monitor, so every time I grab it I accidentally press buttons.
4. It seems sort of... shaky? I have a normalish, not especially heavy monitor, but when I move it the monitor shakes around a lot.
Are there any monitor arms that just like... work better? Move smoothly and easily and exactly into place? Or are they all basically the same as far as issue #1 goes and the differences are in them being extra secure (and presumably the screws wouldn't loosen on a better quality one but that alone is not worth $$$) |
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