Comments on: Mobile Tech Minutes- ergonomics is important

By: ergonomiclaptopstand

ergonomiclaptopstand — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:24:30 +0000

Let’s take a look at HP Compaq Presario CQ20-200. This is one of their most

selling laptop still available in the market until today. It comes with a high

powered 2.0 GHz Intel Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200. Enough computing power for

entertainment, Internet browsing, or document processing. A 1024 MB memory and a

160 GB attached to it give it extra computing strength that can last a lifetime.

By: solomon

solomon — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:55:12 +0000

would like to see another day-in-the-life, and how each (toy)tool plays its part, the absence of the p1620, the addition of the 2730p and how it compares with similar models.

By: C.

C. — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:45:51 +0000

When I do work at home, I find using my bed or one of our big chairs in the living room the most comfortable places to work. I put a pillow under the laptop as a stand; fortunately, my laptops don’t get too warm!

At work at the day job, I have an ‘ergonomic’ corner desk with two large monitors, decent desk chair and keyboard with a touchpad instead of a mouse. The keyboard helps a lot but at the end of the day I am sore much more so than after working at home. I would be happier if they let me bring in one of the big chairs from home and gave me a laptop to work on!

I think ergonomics is really about finding out the ways that your body is most comfortable sitting and typing on a computer and there isn’t one way that works for everyone.

By: Luscious

Luscious — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:43:44 +0000

That’s a handy notebook stand, but I’m surprised the designers didn’t put a grill on there to help with fan cooling. If I were using that stand with a hot notebook, I’d grab the drill, a 1/8 drill bit and put a few holes in there.

Personally, I wouldn’t use the notebook screen together with a monitor. I’d prefer to put the notebook underneath the monitor, lid closed, and put the monitor on a stand. Matrox sells a device that lets you connect 2-3 external monitors to notebooks and link them together to make one huge desktop.

By: abe

abe — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:28:38 +0000

i noticed the nice wallpaper in those pics

i used to have that one, got it from lifehacker, but now i downloaded a new dualmonitor high resolution wallpaper.
its really great and i can get it to go across my monitors with display fusion. this means that i dont have to look at 2 pictures of the same thing. i was thiking that you might like to do the same now that you have 2 monitors.

hope this helps you

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:04:22 +0000

3 cables including the power adapter. This is a single cable coming out of the monitor and branching into the 3 ports of the Macbook.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:47:29 +0000

JK, how many cables do you have to attach to your MacBook when it’s “docked”? I really prefer notebooks from vendors that offer docking stations to drop the machine in. My Thinkpad X60t is nice in that regard, and I particularly like the fact that the dock has the DVD drive, so I don’t have to lug that around.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:38:30 +0000

Compulim, I do have an external keyboard on a tray beneath the big monitor. I mentioned it in the video but it was barely on camera.

ignar, the brightness on the Macbook was not at maximum and the angle of the video made it look less bright. It’s quite nice in reality.

By: ignar

ignar — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:50:33 +0000

Macbook screen looks awful compared to 24″ monitor. Is it just an angle or is the screen really that bad?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:35:36 +0000

@Compulim – WTFV :)