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Laptop Stand and Wireless Keyboard
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Published: Dec 03, 2012
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Gifts and Gadgets
“When your wife buys a new Macbook Pro,” I joked, “it can only mean one of three things — she has a new lover, she’s divorcing you or she has a big new project.”
My wife, working furiously on her new laptop, did not respond.
But I knew the answer was #3 because, a few days later, the Macbook was floating above the table — my wife had bought a laptop stand.
A few days later, a new keyboard arrived.
And now, where there was once a woman hunched over a laptop, wearing a heating pad around her shoulders to ease the pain of swollen muscles, I see a remarkable work station.
The screen of the laptop is at eye level, just where it would be on a properly placed desktop.
The wireless keyboard is at the level of keys on a piano, the ideal level for typing.
What my wife has created, in effect, is a bullet-fast Mac desktop with a 17” screen that can, in seconds, become what it used to be — a laptop.
It’s somewhat like the commercials for Microsoft’s new device: a tablet with a snap-on keyboard that upgrades it into a laptop of sorts. Except that my wife’s rig-up is more expensive. And is less about apps than about productivity.
The laptop stand is the bestseller in its category at Amazon. Of 400 comments, 335 are 5-star. Can it weigh just three pounds and really be sturdy? It can. And it will hold laptops — Mac or PC — with screens as large as 17 inches. [To buy the laptop stand from Amazon, click here.]
Keyboards are specific: Mac or PC. The Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 with Built-In Multi-Touch Touchpad is for Windows-based PCs. [To buy it from Amazon, click here.]
For Macbooks, Apple builds its own wireless keyboards. [To buy the wireless Apple keyboard, click here.]
One big step in my wife’s project. An even bigger step in home workplace ergonomics.
