Today’s featured MacBook Pro setup belongs to a coder in Panama who uses two excellent stands to lift almost all of his gear off his desk. One’s a microphone arm doubling as a headphone stand. The other, more-substantial rig is a Vivo Dual Monitor Desk Mount that holds aloft two external displays and a MacBook Pro on a tray. That really tidies up the desk.
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MacBook Pro setup’s Vivo mount and extra stand juggle laptop, dual screens, mic and headphones
Redditor Xtraipel (“X”) showcased the colorful and efficient setup in a post entitled, “Current Setup.” X runs a MacBook Pro mounted on a laptop tray on the same arm as his two stacked monitors, possibly 1080p screens — 27 inches on top and 24 inches below. So that makes three screens, including the laptop’s. We wrote recently about X’s setup with a focus on the inexpensive but highly effective lighting scheme. Now we want to dwell on that incredibly useful Vivo Dual Monitor Mount handling two external displays and one laptop.
X described his usage:
Main monitor is just for coding and reading, the small one in the bottom is for YouTube or Spotify, that kind of secondary task, and the MacBook screen is for checking results and seeing products on Live. So even the screen quality and resolutions are way too different … with some tweaks you can achieve a color matching and good results.
At the left corner of the desk, another mount holds much less, just a microphone and a pair of SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7 gaming headphones. X said they’re Xbox Edition. And with all that mounted gear, the desktop itself is uncrowded. It features a good-looking NuPhy Air 75 mechanical keyboard and the extremely popular Logitech MX Master 3S wireless mouse.
Vivo Dual Monitor Desk Mount with added laptop tray
Vivo’s mount, which clamps securely to a desk, is incredibly handy in a setups. In X’s case, it keeps two external displays and a laptop on a tray off the desk and moveable.
- Dual monitor mount fitting two screens 13-inch to 30-inch in size and up to 22 pounds in weight each with VESA 75x75mm or 100x100mm backside mounting holes.
- Cable management clips are provided along the arms and center pole.
- Adjustable arm offers +90-degree to -90-degree tilt, 180-degree swivel, 360-degree rotation, and height adjustment along the center pole. Monitors can be placed in portrait or landscape orientation.
- Mounts to the back of your desk (up to 3.25 inches thick) via a heavy-duty C-clamp or optional grommet mount.
- Easy installation with detachable VESA bracket plates.
- Sturdy steel design is backed with a 3-year warranty and tech support.
And if you like the desktop wallpaper showing on displays, X said: “Stock Sonoma wallpaper but on dynamic. Giving that cool effect.”
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This heavy duty, fully adjustable steel stand holds two computer screens. Comes in black, STAND-V002.
