[TAKEMYMONEY]

But a $400 premium?

I work in a "nice" office (with a chair and motorized standing desk that each cost several thousand) and we use nearly bezel-less 4k monitors with brushed aluminum tilt-and-raise stands that aren't made by Apple.

There's a huge range between Apple and AmazonBasics industrial-design-wise now, especially when you're bidding for enterprise-level equipment contracts.

[oneplane]

At that point where the personal work area budget of 200k really doesn't care if your monitor arm costs $50 or $2000... well it doesn't matter anymore.

Price-fighting over workplace items only applies to the mass market. (which is both the problem and the solution: if you want to save some money, buy a different stand and VESA-mount it)

[hughrr]

Decent monitor arms easily cost $300-500.

[D13Fd]

That's untrue. Ergotron LX arms for example hold big monitors perfectly and last basically forever - currently priced <$200:

https://www.amazon.com/Ergotron-Monitor-Monitors-Up-Polished...

[Wistar]

I have several Ergotrons for a few years now, mostly the two-arm models with 27in monitor pairs. My only gripe is that cabling them neatly is difficult.

[TAKEMYMONEY]

1. Excellent monitor arms might cost that much, most are closer to $200-300. Decent ones are way less.

2. This is $400 more than the other arm. You're paying $400 for the added height adjustment.

[w0mbat]

Most VESA monitor arms are like $30 to $40.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=VESA+monitor+arm

[hughrr]

They all seem to have serious problems at that price point. I got through about three before giving up and buying a decent one, albeit second hand.

[ineedasername]

Somewhere in here there's a bad joke about them costing an arm & a leg.

[FpUser]

I have monitor arm that works just fine. Cost me $149 (Canadian pesos) on Amazon.

[hughrr]

To note I paid considerably less than half that for my $300 arm.

YMMV but shop around for corp clearance.

[readams]

Monitor arms are much more complicated than a monitor stand.

[pcmoney]

$400 is literally less than one hour of billable work in most places, negligible.

[TAKEMYMONEY]

I'm aware of the hourly rates for the industry I work in, thank you. We're discussing value.