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between mezzanine construction organization and frankly just way more

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important projects this one has kind of fallen through the cracks but finally

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months after our first one arrived we're digging through what is hopefully not a

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large pile of brushed aluminum garbage to find the best

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macbook stands

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so at the end of our search we ended up with eight macbook pro stands mostly

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because it's a common search term and we want people to find our video but also

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because nothing prevents someone from using a macbook stand with a razor blade

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or whatever else unless they're terminally unimaginative so first up is roost's

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roost stand two out of ten name terrible but anyway

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the product itself is pretty cool it's by far the most compact stand in our

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roundup and quickly folds down to 13 inches making it perfect for carting

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around with you so you can quickly prop your laptop up in class or at a lan

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party or wherever you happen to be with that said it's not my favorite as a

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permanent desk installation because its wobble control is unexceptional at best

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and its molded plastic and nylon elastic

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construction at this price point didn't really blow us away 12 south's newsstand

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the curve is more of a desk fixture solution than

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a portable one and it's imo by far the

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most aesthetically pleasing stand in our roundup today and i'm pretty sure this

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one is going to end up in edsel's apartment at some point

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but it's not the most rigid stand in our lineup and on my admittedly kind of

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shaky desk it's a little bit jarring on

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something more solid though it works well enough so if you're after a stand

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for looks this one gets our recommendation rain designs m stand

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comes in two attractive variants the m stand and the m stand 360 and in three

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different colors as you'd probably guess the 360 variant

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spins around so my first thought was pos

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system maybe but then i was like who the heck uses a macbook as a point of sale

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system so yeah according to rain design it's meant

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as a collaboration tool

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so i'll leave it up to your imagination there as a stand

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it's pretty darn good with basically no wobble but as a heat sink

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seriously you guys it's obviously complete unless you apply a

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generous layer of thermal goop to the bottom of your macbook every time you

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use it i mean rubber feet and a sizable

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air gap anyone hello

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anyway adjustable stands are more my jam so let's look at a few of those now rain

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designs eye level has a clean appalachia

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aesthetic and a good degree of adjustability but the laptop holding

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plate is simply too thin resulting in an

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unacceptable amount of wobble regardless of your desk the near 5-star rating on

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amazon frankly didn't make a ton of sense to me until i realized that many

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people were probably using this product with a 13-inch macbook air and that

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should be fine twelve south's high-rise for macbook

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is honestly no better the laptop platform is wimpy and doesn't properly

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support the 15-inch pro this adjustment mechanism feels like

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they sacrificed usability to tick off the adjustable feature box and frankly i

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think it looks way better upside down i mean seriously check that out they

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should do a revision where it's just they move the the pads around and it's

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just upside down bringing us finally then to a product worth your money the

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crane stand elevate this bad boy has all

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the features without any usability compromises it's three-way adjustable

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with bottom and top joints as well as extensions on the support to get a huge

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range of motion as you would expect from a stand targeted at djs and while it's a

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little more time consuming to adjust once you get it in the right spot thanks

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to the little teeth that lock in place it does not move my only gripe with this

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one is that it looks like a piece of production equipment and that's not in a

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good way so if you're a modern design hipster you'll probably want to stay

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away from this one last but not least is 12 south's park slope it's kind of in

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its own category for features in that there really aren't any of them it's all

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in the name it slopes your laptop when you park it on top putting our 15-inch

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macbook pro at just the right angle for comfortable typing similar to the

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kickstands on the back of your keyboard the extra screen height is neck friendly

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and as you can probably imagine this one doesn't wobble i honestly just wish they

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had used this gauge and steel material

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on some of the other stands so in conclusion what stand to buy if

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aesthetics then the curve or the m stand

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they're both sturdy and look great so it's just a matter of which one matches

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your setup best for adjustability the only real option here is the crane stand

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i wouldn't even consider the other two unless you're rocking a thin and light

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and as for an elevated experience my

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go-to is 12 south's park slope it's fine but we also didn't have

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anything else from this category in the roundup so um

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