Have a (Mac) notebook “dock”/stand you really like?

A few days ago I ordered a top-of-the-line 15” MacBook Pro and a 24” LED Cinema Display (which means I have a Mac Pro, a MacBook Air, and a 23” Apple Cinema Display for sale; email me if interested), and am now on the hunt for a “dock” or stand.

When I say “dock”/stand, I’m not referring to something to place the notebook in/on when it’s not on my desk (e.g., something like Belkin’s CushTop, for which I wrote a glowing review last year),1 but rather a stand to use when it’s on my desk and piped to the external display.

via Justin Blanton | Have a (Mac) notebook “dock”/stand you really like?.

I investigated this a few months back and ended up going “whole hog”, installing a dual arm monitor stand from Ergotron. One of the arms holds my 25″ Samsung monitor, the other has a tray that holds the laptop. That allows me to use both screens and adjust them to my preferences.Not cheap — it’ll cost you a couple of hundred dollars, but the ability to move things out of the way, especially UP, freeing up desk space for non computer use when I need it, is wonderful. It’s built like a tank, nicely adjustable, pretty easy to install, and has worked like a champ for the last six months. Only weakness, and it’s minor, is cable management, easily solved with a supply of tie wraps.

I finally decided, once and for all, to solve this problem and quit working around it, and I don’t regret it. My one wish, since I used the through-the-desk install point and drilled a hole in the desktop, is that I wish I’d moved it about 6″ to the left. Oh well, live and learn…

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