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(More customer reviews)Overall, for 30 bucks, this isn't a bad mount, but it wasn't what I was expecting from the images. For the good, it seems pretty sturdy, and will do what it's meant to do, but that's about it. First, this mount does not freely articulate. What appears to be a joint at the bottom of the mount arm is just a decorative cover. Under the cover is a grouping of screw holes that allow you to fix the arm in a variety of positions. There are 4 allen head screws that hold the arm in place. In order to elevate or lower the arm, you would have to remove the cover and those screws, and even then, there's only about 4 or 5 settings, so it's not limitless. The head of the mount where the monitor mounts however, does freely articulate up/down, side to side, and allows for screen rotation. Also the arm while it doesn't adjust up and down freely, does swivel as you might expect.
The next bit that's a little misleading is the wall mount option. Yes, it can be mounted to a wall, but there's no hardware included for that. The wall mount is accomplished by leaving off the clamps used for desk mounting, and using the holes provided for that part to attach the arm to the wall. The problem is the holes are about 3/8" in diameter, so you will need pretty large lag bolts if you want to use them for that. I simply drilled 2 smaller holes in bracket and used 3" drywall screws, which worked perfectly. But if you aren't prepared to do a bit of modification to the mount to facilitate wall mounting, you'll need some pretty big screws or lag bolts.
I rated it a 3 mainly because I think there's some intentional misleading in the design at the bottom to make you think it raises and lowers freely, and that wall mounting isn't quite as easy as they may like you to think. Aside from that it will certainly do its job, and will do what I needed it for. But if you need something with full articulation and ready adjustment, this one probably isn't for you.
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