Vesa Monitor Holder for MacBook Pro
A quick 3d printed support to put my MacBook Pro behind my monitor
This has been heavily inspired by Fatih Arslan ⤤'s MacBook Holder ⤤.
I recently bought a 3d printer ⤤. That’s something I wanted to have for a long time. More than 20 years ago, when I was studying, I was learning how to design industrial pieces on CATIA ⤤. One of the projects I worked on was regarding quick prototyping. If we had to do that today, it would be based on 3d printing for sure. Over the years I continue to model things. Usually my new home everytime we moved, with all the furniture in place.
But I started 3d printing only very recently.
Why another MacBook Pro holder?
Well, why not?
My desk is organized with two monitors: two LG 27” 4K. One is in landscape mode, in front of me, and the other one in portrait mode, on the right side. And I’m using it with my laptop (a MacBook Pro m4 14”) closed. I don’t need the laptop monitor to work. But I like to keep my desk clean.
So I’m trying to avoid to simply put my laptop on top of my desk. I can do it, but this is not really useful to me. The good thing if the laptop is on the desk is it’s easy to grab it to wherever I need to go.
I can also put it under my desk. I’ve built some custom brackets for that. It’s great because the laptop is hidden, so my desk is clean. But to plug/unplug it, is not that nice. The brackets I’ve made are for my previous m1 16” so I have to change them anyway.
And then I saw Fatih’s posts on twitter about holding the laptop behind a monitor. This looks curious, but interesting. In my case, my desk is in the middle of the room, I don’t have a wall close to my desk. So it’s even easier to turn around, plug/unplug it when needed.
As I don’t have an Apple Studio Display, I can’t use its creation. I decided to create on my own.
My two monitors are used with monitor arms, with vesa support. I just needed to design a holder with a plate that will have the same holes than the vesa mounting system.
And that’s what I finally did:
The 3d modeling was quite easy. I was really inspired by his design, for instance with holes at the bottom of the support for the heat.
The printing went well, and it was time to mount it. I just had to unscrew my monitor, put the plate, and screw again. Of course the dimensions are designed only for the monitor I have, it might be different for others. But that was easy to do.
And here is the final result:
