In a sponsored review of laptop stands, Janne explains the benefits of raising a laptop (cooling, neck posture, using an external keyboard/mouse), demonstrates a vertical laptop bracket, and recommends investing in a proper monitor arm for a permanent setup.
If you are working from home with a laptop and you want to improve your ergonomics, this video is for you. This video has been made in commercial partnership with a company that sent me different kinds of laptop stands so you could get an idea of what options are available and how to use them. In the upper corner of the video you can see the code name of the current stand, and all the links will be down below. During this video I'll just put laptop stands up and you can see how you need to adjust them.
What kind of benefits can you get from a laptop stand? High temperatures are the enemy of electrical components - good cooling always helps extend their life. If you have an external keyboard and mouse, then you can easily elevate the laptop higher and maintain a good neck posture while watching the screen. Most of the stands also work with tablets, so think about getting a good Bluetooth mouse and keyboard - if you need to use a tablet a lot on the go, then these accessories are priceless in the long run.
If you're a laptop owner of Apple products, you might like this laptop bracket - you can easily install an 11 to 17 inch laptop into a vertical position, and aesthetically it's a nice-looking combination. You can also use a Windows laptop in a vertical position, but there are multiple screen settings you need to adjust for that to work correctly.
Lastly, the laptop or monitor riser - for example, my current screen dock structure won't let me lift the screen up high enough, and I feel that the head position is too low, and when I check the bottom of the screen my chin tilts down. In these kinds of cases you can use a riser to get your laptop higher, or elevate the whole screen. But if it's your main setup, I strongly suggest you get a good monitor arm - the adjustability is at another level, and I can strongly say I will always be using a good monitor arm. ---
In a sponsored review of laptop stands, Janne explains the benefits of raising a laptop (cooling, neck posture, using an external keyboard/mouse), demonstrates a vertical laptop bracket, and recommends investing in a proper monitor arm for a permanent setup.
The video demonstrates specific movement patterns and clinical exercise progressions: If you are working from home with a laptop and you want to improve your ergonomics, this video is for you. This video has been made in commercial partnership with a company that sent me different kinds of laptop stands s...
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