This morning, for the first time, I considered getting a pair of "monitor arms," and I think I will do that the next time I turn some Bitcoin into Amazon gift card credit (or when someone decides it's time to send me something from my Amazon Wish List).
That I haven't done so before is mostly because I overlooked their main use case.
I always thought of them as space savers, and since I tend to keep my desktop surface minimally occupied and efficiently organized, I already have plenty of space. Every time I try to optimize for space, I feel like it was a waste of time and money. Another square foot of desk space makes zero difference to my quality of office life.
But this morning it finally and belatedly occurred to me that using adjustable arms would do more than free up desktop space currently occupied by risers.
As I age and my vision gets (thankfully pretty slowly) worse, I might want them closer. When I want my chair further back or closer, or want to sit up straight vs. lean forward vs. lean back, I might want them closer or further away; higher, or lower; perpendicular to or tilted vis a vis the desk surface, all of which would amount to "grab and reposition" with monitor arms, but would require extensive remodeling at present (with the monitors on bases, sitting on risers, sitting on the desktop).
Other than some possible cable management issues to resolve and some minimal expense (about $45 for the pair I'm looking at), the idea just seems infinitely superior to my current setup.
Do any of you use clamp-on monitor arms? If so, what's your opinion of how much better or worse they are than monitors sitting on a surface?
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