Elephant performing pirouettes in my front room
This product has revolutionised my home office set-up. After four months of working from home, the drawbacks of working on a laptop perched on a shoebox on a folding table were becoming apparent, even though I had a separate keyboard. While browsing for something slightly different, I fortuitously came across this product, which with increasing excitement I realised could be the solution to my problems.
The laptop stand/clamp is incredibly heavy and sturdy--it definitely has elephantine qualities. The assembly instructions looked complicated and the diagrams were rather small, but in fact, as I am not using the monitor arm, there was not a lot of assembly required. The whole process, working slowly and carefully, and with one instance of backtracking when screws were not put in straight, took about 45 minutes. I am delighted with the result. At last, the screen is at head height and I am no longer hunching over. I had not expected that a single purchase could make such an impact on my home working environment.
I had to move the position of the clamp on the table to the right to achieve the best positioning. This was because the table is very small. To start with, the upright bar of the stand had been impinging on my visual field. A smaller tray for the laptop would have suited me better by making the stand more manoeuvrable.
I still think that a more lightweight metal could have been used. The product is incredibly sturdy, but it's a bit of overkill. I just hope my folding table can withstand the weight! To ease the pressure on it, I will be removing the laptop from the stand when not working.
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