Reviews for Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter Kit

My coworker wanted a standing desk so I attached this for him. The amount of force I had to use to line up the screws was insane. The piece of plastic you get to unlatch the thing is cheap. Too much pressure in the wrong place and you make it useless.
After being sick of the standing desk my coworker wanted the original stand back. I pulled it out and they needed help. They got it removed and the other stand attached, but couldn't get the monitor to tilt back. There are no instructions in the manual on removing it. I found a few things online (nothing on the apple site) but nothing was useful.
The real trick was pushing the monitor so far forward you felt like you were breaking the thing. Then you can use the card to push the spring and release the lock. Very unfriendly.

Get this if you need it, but be prepared for a struggle.

I am a very handy person. I am in the process of renovation my whole house and this was the hardest task to date. The directions are not easy to follow and I wasn't sure if I am supposed to mount directly to the wall or to another wall mount. I decided to go directly to the wall. It was extremely difficult to get the holes to line up and my hand could fit behind the MAC to tighten the screws. It took me 2 days to work up a solution, but I finally did and now I am happy. For such a smart company, this is the worst design. I was very angry and frustrated until it was finally done.

I would give this product half a star if I could. The holes are not compatable with common mounts. Apple in yet another attempt to nickle and dime us to death comes up with the idea of requiring an adapter to mount a monitor to something that all other monitors come with standard.(and they charge $30 not including shipping for it) Here is some advice for the design team at Apple stop over designing, whats wrong with the installed holes in every other monitor on the market?

most vesa arms have 75mm x 75mm mounts. This is 100mm x 100mm., which means you need yet another adapter. this should have just had the 75mm holes drilled in as well.

While this products functions perfectly, the reason for the low score is due to my feeling that this should have been included with my monitor. NOT something I need to go out and spend an additional $30 on. Especially since most other LCD monitors now have this feature built in already. I wouldn't want to ruin the esthetic, so I don't mind that it is a seperate piece, it just really should have been included.