My friend Garrick recently posted about an ergonomic improvement to his workspace. He got a monitor arm to get his display up where it worked better for him. Recently I’ve felt a lot of back fatigue and aching and I feel a lot better when I sit up straight. My monitor is typically to low for this though, so inspired by Garrick I ordered a duplicate of his rig. I got the Ergotron LX LCD Arm along with an adapter for the Apple Cinema display.

I have a 30" cinema display that I mounted this on. I had to adjust the tension a lot to hold the big monitor, but my first reaction is that it is way better. Plus, I got a lot of desk space back and flexibility to collaborate with others that come into my office.

I like it enough I may need to get one for home too! (For comparison, that is an 11" MacBook Air next to the display.)

Curved office desk with a large monitor on an arm mount, an 11-inch MacBook Air on a stand, a split keyboard, trackball, and papers with an Atomic letterhead.

I’m not in love with the cable management, but it works well enough. I could do better with some extra zip ties in a cleanup session.

Back of a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display mounted on an Ergotron LX monitor arm on a dark desk, with cables and a PC tower visible below.