 Apple charges $1,000 for this. So would you even believe me if I told you that all of this could be yours for hundreds of dollars less? The concept is old, but when we saw the new ErgoDuel from LG, we questioned our own choices and just had to know, could this double monitor plus arm combo pack thing possibly be as good as today's sponsor? Karma is a really cool extension that'll help you save both time and money when shopping online. Want to know more? Stay tuned for the end of this video. The LG ErgoDuel Before it's even out of the packaging, the LG ErgoDuel is checking boxes for me left and right. Get it? That's a joke. Lots of screen real estate, an included double monitor arm, two identical displays, and they better be color matched, good cable management, and USB-C power delivery for the odd laptop that might roll through your workspace. This is the monitors and all this is just the arm? Funny thing, even though I had never actually encountered one before, bundle products like this do exist if you go looking for them. Dell and HP, for example, have a handful of options ranging from smaller, lower resolution screens like this home office bundle, all the way up to bigger, higher resolution screens like this one from HP, albeit at a much higher price of $1,200. It used to be that brand name monitor arms were like the norm and you would pay hundreds of dollars for a monitor arm. And that was like what you did from like Kensington or whatever the case may be. But I always just didn't bother because I was like, that's stupid. It comes with a way to mount it. And if I need it up higher, I'll put it on a book or something. Like I was always that guy. And so I've only ever really like seen AliExpress grade monitor arms. This is definitely built a little bit better. Like you could kill a man with it, you know? You could get really like nunchucks. Don't take away my fun. Back to business. The clamp down here works like most monitor arm clamps, meaning that you'll need a fair bit of overhang on both the top and bottom of your desk in order to get it seated properly. One thing that's kind of cool is it can actually open up wide enough to accommodate a desk this thick. Who has a desk like that? Anyway, the point is if you have any sort of support bar or say for example, a little IO thing like this one, you might struggle to find enough clearance down there. You know what? Funnily enough, this has kind of a metal housing thing on the bottom of it that is possibly strong enough that I could actually open this up a little wider and clamp right to it. But then I wouldn't be able to open this anymore. So that is not actually a solution. I'm gonna go ahead and put it here. Okay, this is interesting. It's non-trivial, but if you wanted to attach this to a third party monitor, you technically could. You would just unclip this plastic thing, probably remove this somehow, and then you could go right through, see that? These bolt holes and just screw this plate into your other monitor. Not the best job of future-proofing that I've ever seen, but it's better than nothing. The rest of it's really cool though. Even though it ships with 27 inch displays, you can see that it's actually adjustable. You've got this little thing in the boober right here that'll tell you where to position it. That goes for both vertical and horizontal configurations. Pretty cool. And then, like I mentioned, vertical and horizontal configurations. It either goes on this way or this way, and it's keyed so that you can't accidentally put it on upside down. It'll prevent it from going on all the way. What is this? There's a bar. It's like a control bar, so you can move around. Oh, that's cool. Get in there. That's cool. This bar serves two functions. One is it allows you to move the completed assembly around with ease, and two, it allows you to play machine gunner simulator. Once you're done, the monitors pop on a little something like this, pretty standard fare. Here, David, I'll get you. Whoa! Watch out for your LTT store water bottle while you're swinging that around. Don't want to knock that over. Not that it isn't perfectly durable, not to mention well insulated for hot or cold beverages. Lttstore.com. Coffee, then. Don't, don't, don't, don't. Not bad. Supports the weight just fine, which I should hope it would. They come in the same box. There's a little bit of adjustment here just in case your desk isn't level or whatever, which is a thing, by the way. So having a little bit of adjustment this way is good. You can tilt it. There you go. Oh, you can't tilt it up very much. So if you like to have your monitors low and kind of look down at them, it might not be the best for that, but you can tilt it down, which would be really useful for a stacked configuration. Hmm, okay. Plouffe had some notes about how it can be a little bit tricky to get it far enough away from you. Right? So I could, I could see that. I could see that being a bit of an issue. You kind of can't, you'd have to have it off to the side, which I guess isn't the end of the world because the monitors are, look, the monitors are so big that it's going to cover up the stand anyway, but it's definitely something to be aware of as you set it up. You're going to want this like kind of over here. If you want it dead center and deep on your desk, like that is probably how I'd want it. Something to note at this point in the game is that while you can swap between side by side, center portrait, or pivot pretty easily, if you want to switch to a stacked layout after the fact, one on top of the other, it's going to take a fair bit more work. You pretty much have to take everything off, accept the clamp to the desk, rotate the bar, and then put it back 90 degrees off and put the monitors on. It's not hard. It just does take some time and that's something you should be aware of. I got it. I got it. Don't help me. Did they think to provide a longer DP? No, not really. What is this guy though? This has got to be something to do with cable management for this. Not bad, right? Like the LTT store cable ties. Could have used these ones, but I used these ones. And this gives us tons of options. Like I already mentioned that it's got USB-C input with power delivery. So as long as your laptop doesn't need more than 65 Watts, it's a single type C cable for charging and display output. But this is even better. Each monitor has an HDMI input, but you're going to want to use DisplayPort because they've got DisplayPort inputs and outputs. So we can actually daisy chain them together as long as we have a GPU that supports that functionality, meaning that it's just one cable either way to run both of these displays. You can see here, I didn't leave enough slack to plug the power into this display when I have it twisted around like this. So I'm gonna just fix that. You're gonna want to make sure you account for that. However, you've got it configured. You can leave a little bit more slack than I have. I went pretty tight, but I leave that up to you. These are cool. They include these extensions for the DC power plugs for the monitors. So if you're using them without this arm, they're the right length. And then if you're using them with the arm, you've got extra to route through all the cable management nonsense. Okay, I think it's turning on now. Here we go. Ah, menu. We got nipple control here. Oh, all the usual, oh, all the very basic, basic settings you might expect. And there's one more thing that we might have to configure. You actually have to turn on the display port output. Otherwise, no worky. That's awesome. Man, if we had a wireless keyboard and mouse, like show me the wires, right? That's pretty cool. I'm gonna do my favorite test. Hold on, let me do my favorite test. I'm gonna take a white window. Oh my God. Gosh darn it. I'm gonna take a white window. That's pretty good. Like, you know when you've got two monitors that are supposedly the same, and one of them's blue and one of them's yellow, like right out of the box? You gotta get where I am though, cause when you're looking at it from a different angle, yeah, you gotta see them both head on. It's not bad, not perfect, but not bad. By this point in the video though, you guys have probably realized that this is my first time hands-on with the Ergo Dual. So why don't we hear from the person who has actually spent the last few weeks daily driving it, trying out some of the different configurations, and writing this to me. I've got some of the cleave spots here. Handwritten because, oh, I see. We took away your monitors. Dear Linus, I think the Ergo Dual would be a fine addition to most home or work offices. Side-by-side wasn't for me. I got some next-drain looking from side to side, even when I angled them in a little bit, but the other options were pretty good. Center portrait is my preference at work, and I use the same layout at home. It's a bit tough to get the screens perfectly flush with one another, and getting the displays recessed far enough can take some forethought, depending on how low or how high you want them. Once you're finished shooting, return them to my desk so they can become a permanent fixture there. No, I didn't hear the magic word. All right. But first, let's see how it handles gaming, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, headshot, headshot, headshot. Oh God, I'm reloading. Headshot. Oh, shoot. I know what you're thinking. It's not made for this Linus, but it's also not entirely unreasonable for a casual video editor who might benefit from a setup like this to maybe want to play some games in their spare time. And 75 Hertz is better than 60, even if it's not up there with the best gaming monitors today. And it's not exactly cheap. It's affordable, but not cheap. So no excuses. Image quality then in less action-oriented games is I would describe as fine, but as soon as you fire up something faster paced, I don't even need to measure the pixel response times to know that they're a little bit rough. It also doesn't get very bright. It's listed at 350 lumens, but in the more accurate cinema mode, it only saw 320 and 270 between the two of them. Color accuracy isn't too bad with our brighter monitor hitting an average delta E of 2.6 and the dimmer unit hitting 3.4 with both of them having more trouble with yellows and greens than anything else. And while they're not perfectly matched out of the box, I'd say they're close enough to the point where an amateur photographer could use either of them to touch up their photos before posting to Instagram. The HDR is HD aren't because it's only 350 nits, even if you get everything they advertise on the box. So considering how well Windows handles HDR, you might as well just leave it turned off. Overall, not bad. But before you hit the buy button, which we will have linked down below, there are a few things we're not particularly fond of. It is nice that LG used standard 100 millimeter VESA holes in those plates that go into the back of the monitors, but with all the extra plastic on there, it's not especially convenient to mount a new monitor to it. And if you wanted to replace these with something new, you have to consider that whoever your buyer is better have a dual monitor arm of their own because they don't come with any out of the box normal stands that you can include with them. Another thing is that according to one solitary review that we found on Adorama, it does not support dual screens on Mac OS 12 or 11. So I guess we should test that. Horse? We need some horsepower. Play it in. Okay. And then, you got a notification. Oh, look at that. Yes. All right. So if we- Lies! Oh, it's sideways. Hold on. Let me fix that. But there's a- Oh, but it worked. Well- Or wait, hold on. Is this right? What is this? Oh, it's the ghost of Mac's past. Well, there's a, here, watch this. Uh-huh. Is this right? If you like, I mean, if you like to, if you like double vision. Oh. Oh, that's a bummer. Why would it behave like that? So apparently Mac OS doesn't support MST. Really? After all this time? Oh. Yeah. I mean, you can do it if it was a Thunderbolt screen. But I'm great. It'd be nice to have a Thunderbolt screen. But- No. Yeah. So do you have, we, uh, do we have another USB-C cable? Cause you could just plug it into the other one. Well, yeah, but that's, oh my God. Okay. All right. Thank you. Bye-bye. So if you're a Mac user, this might not be the product for you. And at $800, it might also not be for you if you don't like the price or you want more versatility in your monitor arms or whatever the case may be. And the good news is that while we like this package and think it actually makes a ton of sense, there are other options. For gamers, for example, you could just as easily buy a gaming display and then one other cheaper one that you don't care about as much. Plus a more versatile arm or even no arm at all. This Huanou dual stand, 70 bucks on sale at the time of filming. Four and a half stars with 10,000 ratings. Though it should be noted, it only holds up to 14.3 pounds per arm compared to 20 on this one. Make sure you get subscribed by the way, because we're going to be doing a whole roundup of cheap monitor arms off of like Amazon and stuff that you will not want to miss. Just like you don't want to miss our sponsor, Karma. Karma is a free app and browser extension that uses sophisticated AI and machine learning technology to produce a seamless and smart shopping experience. Karma works with over 50,000 stores. So whether you're getting new computer parts or buying your spouse a gift, you can ensure that you are making the right choices at the right time while you shop online. Me, not a huge shopper. So finding deals can be a little time consuming and that's what makes Karma crazy useful. 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