Monitors in Portrait

[singaporesoxfan]

I'm compelled to try out getting an external monitor for my MacBook Air to use in portrait rather than landscape - given a lot of what I do (working with documents, browsing news sites) I actually think this might let me see more content. Has anyone used their monitor in portrait and liked it?

 

[canderson]

One of mine is in portrait - it's where I keep my email inbox. It works well for reading as you said.

 

[SeoulSoxFan]

Indeed. I have posted this elsewhere, but my setup consists of 1 30" Dell in landscape, flanked by one 24" and one 20" in portrait (although I'lll be selling these soon and swapped out soon by the 34" LG UM95 mentioned in the Monitor Lust thread).
 
If you're going this route, I highly, highly recommend picking up the M2 monitor arm: 
 
http://www.humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=M2
 

 

[Couperin47]

That's a VERY nice arm, and costs more than I'm guessing 90% of SOSH members paid for the monitors they are currently using.
This Monoprice option is a hundred bucks and probably will do just as well sitting behind your monitor http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10828&cs_id=1082808&p_id=9259&seq=1&format=2

 

[SeoulSoxFan]

That's a VERY nice arm, and costs more than I'm guessing 90% of SOSH members paid for the monitors they are currently using.
This Monoprice option is a hundred bucks and probably will do just as well sitting behind your monitor http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10828&cs_id=1082808&p_id=9259&seq=1&format=2

 
I haven't used the Monoprice version, but I can tell you I've been burnt several times by going the cheap route on monitor arms.
 
The lock-mechanisms slip after adjustments, and there's NOTHING you hate more than the monitor coming crashing down because of a slip. Plus, cheaper arms do not give you a full 360 adjustment angles, especially on a multi-monitor setup.
 
There's always a couple of peripherals where you don't want to skimp, and I think monitor arms are one of them. If you count the excellent customer service (they take any faulty ones back & ship you a new one), it's worth going extra. 
 
Again, this is all w/o commenting specifically on the Monoprice arm. I really like most of their white-labelled products, in fact.