Laptop Stands

I have a way cool and groovy laptop desk/cart/table thing for the house. With the weather sure to get warm again, I’m thinking ahead to being able to go sit outside with my laptop.

I tried one called “Cyberlegs” but it wasn’t all that great. It was overall too flimsy and there were no adjustments.

Somehow, while looking for something else, I started looking for portable laptop desks again.

If money weren’t much of an object, as if that will ever happen, I’d get the Tripod Laptop Stand. It can be used when standing (ha) or sitting.

Then there is the LapWalker. I don’t know if I could use it due to my big belly and boobs, but I can see possibilities for it. I would hook it to my chair instead of me. But what about when I am not in my chair, but like, in a lawn chair??

MacOpinion, a website for Mac users, reviewed some of these stands. He reviewed DeskSpaceAnyplace.com’s Portable Laptop Desk; the insTand tripod desk; the Flightable (part luggage, part desk); and the TableTote.

The Portable Laptop Desk has possibilities. It attaches to the extended handle of a rolling bag. It has just one leg which is a good idea. If I could turn it backwards so that the leg was on the opposite side from me, and had some sort of extension for the surface so it was away from me a little, it may work. But after all those modifications, I could have made one myself.

The insTand is a much cheaper alternative to the Tripod Laptop Stand. I’m not sure how the smaller legs would do on uneven or soft surfaces though. As it goes up in price, the legs seem to be much sturdier. There’s even a wheel add-on.

The Flightable is kinda boring and doesn’t have many adjustments. Yawn.

The TableTote, another product from insTand, maybe a viable option. It has four legs, all independently adjustable. It isn’t as easy to set up and not as sturdy but it is cheap and looks like it would work.

Another Mac user site, PowerBook Central, reviewed an odd but way cool table thingy called the surfACE I 1.5 Laptop Stand. This thing is, like, modular. It can be used in any chair with two arms, in bed, on the desk, and has an adapter to attach it to a tripod. How cool is that!? The cost is not too high, although all but one goes for over $100.

Yet another Mac user site, AppleLinks.com, reviewed the Laptop Stand, a platform that attaches to any tripod. They even sell special tripods for it or you can use your own. The Laptop Stand comes in three models all of which can sit on the desk on its own or attached to the tripod.

The possibilites are out there for a wide array of prices. It also gave me an idea of possibly making one on my own, using an old tripod I have around here somewhere. I’d need to find a doohicky that the tripods mount screw could go into.