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We all love our laptops but what do we do with them 90% of the time?  We use them at our desks, hunched over our tiny screens, pecking away at our chicklet-sized keyboards, causing cramped wrists and sore necks.  Of course you can use a proper monitor, keyboard, and mouse.  I’ve been doing this for years, enjoying the large workspace provided by combining the 15″ laptop screen and a 24″ desktop screen, while hammering away at the finest keyboard on the market (the Unicomp Customizer 104).  All this stuff on the desk takes up a ton of space though, and you’re still looking down on the laptop screen  or propping it up on top of a pile of books or broken hard drives.

Enter the adjustable monitor arm!

This year I decided to take it to the next level with a monitor and laptop arm set by Ergotron.  The adjustable arms let you position your monitor and laptop at a touch, allowing easy positioning of your screens for optimum comfort.  Desktop space is reclaimed, with only the footprint of a small bracket at the back of the desk.  Integrated wire management keeps things tidy.  A side bonus is that your laptop is elevated above the fray, keeping it safe from rogue coffee cups. I love my monitor and laptop combination arm, and you will too.

yes that is a blue piggy bank.

Cool robot arms

You can almost feel the productivity increasing!

• Hands, wrists, and forearms straight, and parallel to the floor, elbows at about 90 degrees with upper arms straight at the sides of the body.
• Head level with straight neck, inline with the torso.
• Feet flat on the floor, or on a footrest if the desk is too high.
• Back straight and perpendicular to the floor.
• Top of the monitor should be slightly below the top of your head.