RE: Laptop Luxury

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Has anyone seen anything that allows you to use a laptop
> comfortably on a sofa or bed? I'm sure I've seen a kinda
> table type thing that is designed for that very purpose that
> sits over your lap and rests either side for a comfortable position.
>
> I get backache and a warm lap using my laptop directly
> resting on my legs...
>
> I know I've seen something SPECIFICALLY for laptops somewhere..
>
>
>
> Over to Phil for an ingenious (yet silly) answer... ;-)

Suprisingly I have *EXACTLY* the same quest Rob ... When sat downstairs the
coffee table is just too far away from the sofa to be able to type
comfortably. If I sit on the floor with the coffee table over my legs then
the coffee table is too high. I end up taking on an almost "Roman
Emperor on
a chaise longue" pose with the laptop on the end of the sofa and me
typing
away sideways.

At night I tend to lay "belly down" in bed (and before anyone
says anything
- yes - I know that's the way gravity would tend to put me) with a hefty
stack of pillows under my chest and the laptop against the head of the bed.
When I was a nipper my gran had a bed table that would be almost ideal
except for the fact that our bed is a divan style thing and goes right down
to the floor - I took the wheels off it for reasons that we just won't go
into here ;-) - so there would be nowhere for the "leg" of such a
table to
slip under the bed anyway.

I had thought of something like one of those "breakfast in bed"
tray-tables
with the folding legs for in bed (as the above method does leave you with a
painful back after a few hours) and one of the "tray with beanbag on
the
bottom" things for when I'm sat downstairs but I haven't tried either.

In fact, the only place I *HAVE* got the laptop comfortable to use is in
the
bath and I'm sure someone will happily post up the picture of the little
"rack" I nailgunned together quickly one afternoon when I was
making some
new airing cupboard shelves and had some wood left over...

> P.S. Its so I can monitor my HA, design ccf's, chat on #ukha
> etc etc in comfort. Just to keep it on-topic :-)

Yeah yeah...

Phil



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