Monduo 14-Inch Pro Duo Monitor Review: Turn Your Laptop Into a Triple-Monitor Workstation

Pros Two gorgeous displays Effective attachment system for different laptop sizes 100W pass-through charging Elegant metal design Cons Thick and heavy Needs two separate display connections The Monduo 14-Inch Pro Duo is a fascinating product and well-executed, but it's rather niche. If you need a triple-monitor setup on the go, it does a (somewhat) elegant job. Its spine wraps around a laptop's built-in monitor, then positions a 14-inch screen on either side. Thanks to its excellent LCD panels and a polished (albeit wiggly) design, it really lives up to its premise. There's room for improvement, but only a little. At $749, it's a pricey setup, and not everyone needs two extra screens for their laptop. But if you do, the Pro Duo does the job well. Two impressive screens To start, the displays rock. Each screen is 14 inches with 2,560x1,600 pixels, the image is quite sharp. They're also plenty bright and colorful, reaching up to 576 nits in my testing and delivering 100% coverage of both the sRGB and DCI-P3 color spaces. The screens are fairly accurate, with a maximum dE1976 average of 2.13 between the two (the right panel was more accurate on my sample). With average contrast for this type of panel and a cool white point , they're fine for entertainment and solid for productivity. They're glossy instead of matte, but they still offer some minor glare reduction. They're not just good-looking either. They're also fast. Monduo says they support 144Hz, but I was only able to drive them at 120Hz with the hardware I had available. Still, at that speed, ghosting was faint and motion was smooth. Monduo 14-Inch Pro Duo specs Price $749 Size (diagonal) 14-inch (x2) Panel and backlight IPS-level LCD Flat or curved Flat Resolution and pixel density 2,560x1,600 per display, 215 ppi Aspect ratio 16:9 Maximum gamut 100% DCI-P3 Brightness (nits, peak/typical) 323/576 HDR No Adaptive sync No Max vertical refresh rate 144Hz (rated); 120Hz (tested) Gray-to-gray response time 3ms Connections 1x Mini HDMI, 2x USB-C (per display) Audio N/A VESA mountable No Panel warranty 1 year limited warranty Well-built but wiggly The Monduo 14 Pro Duo is well built, but it's held back by its own flexibility. It's able to fit multiple laptops thanks to a number of moving parts, which results in some wiggly adjustments here and there. The core of the Monduo 14 Pro Duo is an expanding spine, much like you'd find on a smartphone controller grip or selfie stick. This is what lets the back reach around the sides of different-sized laptop screens. This version is specifically built for 14-inch laptops, so it adapted well to an M1 MacBook Pro and a Lenovo Legion Slim 5 14APH8. I also successfully wrapped it around a 16-inch Asus gaming laptop. It didn't have much room to stretch farther, though. The Pro Duo's limit isn't just about the size of the laptop screen. In fact, it seems to have more to do with the height and thickness of the...

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