What's the BEST Laptop Stand on the Market?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,181 words · ~5 min read
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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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