ViewSonic VA2212M 22″ LED monitors

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After I got my standing desk it became quickly apparent that I should upgrade my monitors. My trusty 17″ Samsung 172N was over 11 years old and my 19″ Gateway FPD1960 was pushing 9 years. There was nothing wrong with them, but they were square (4:3) and, now that I was standing, too low on the desk, making me look down and hurting my neck. It was time for an upgrade and for Christmas I received two ViewSonic VA2212M 22″ LED monitors and the VIO free-standing dual monitor stand.

The VA2212M is a 1920×1080 display with both VGA and DVI connectors, built-in speakers, and an LED backlight that supposedly uses 50% less energy than a similar CCFL lit monitor. Having both VGA and DVI connectors is nice because the older ATI Radeon HD5450 graphics card in my PC has one of each. I also had to use a VGA extension cable in order for the cable to reach down to the floor when the desk is fully raised (the DVI cable length was no problem due to the location of the monitor on the desk). The built-in speakers are nice, but they’re tinny-sounding and not very loud. They work in a pinch, and allowed me to remove the extra clutter of external speakers from my desk, but if I want to do any serious music playback or video watching I’m connecting headphones to my computer.

The VIO dual monitor stand will hold two up-to-24″/22lbs monitors. The VA2212M is only 6lbs, so no problem with two of them there, and the stand’s brackets attached easily to the VESA standard connectors on the back of the ViewSonic displays. Then it was just a matter of tightening the bolts to keep the monitors upright (yet still slightly adjustable by hand) and running the cables through the included plastic cable management ties in the back. The stand can be used with the heavy U-shaped base free-standing, or you can drill holes through your desk bolt it right to the surface (I opted for the free-standing mode). Here’s the end result:

Before:

old monitors

After:

new monitors and stand

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