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Do your wrists hurt after using your laptop for just an hour or two? Or maybe your neck and back get uncomfortable after a short time? You might just need a laptop stand for your Mac or Windows computer - or Linux system, of course!
Tech expert and long time computer user Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the iQunix Aluminum Laptop Stand and finds that it's a mixed bag, with a great build quality but some design issues...
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working on your laptop fatiguing maybe
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you need a laptop stand a tailor here
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and I spent a lot of time working on my
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laptop many many hours every single day
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sometimes it ends up fatiguing my neck
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hurts my wrists hurt my hands hurt and
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generally that's a sign that I'm
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probably needed to take a break but
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there's also an ergonomic aspect to this
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because laptops aren't really super well
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designed for you to be working for many
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hours so companies have come up with a
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variety of laptop stands and I'm looking
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at this this is the IKE UNIX aluminum
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laptop stand and it's a one-piece you
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can see it's nice pretty strong made out
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of aircraft aluminum it's easy to
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assemble although there are a couple of
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tiny little screws you'll have to deal
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with but you do it once and it's done
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which is sort of the Pro and the con and
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then let me show you it's sideways so
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you can see it's kind of an interesting
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angle it's a 16 degree angle and that
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means that your laptop ends up sitting
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at a pretty crazy angle a little
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different to what most people might
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expect so if I turn it this way now I
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have it here but the thing is is that my
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fingers my wrist is actually tilting
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even further back rather than down so
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another way you could try using it
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although this is not how they show but
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you can do it the opposite way you can
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do it like this and now your hands are
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going that way I feel like I'm in a
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zombie movie your hands are going this
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way so you have ways to adjust the
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angles of your wrist so you have
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different levels you know so you're sort
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of working different tendons and muscles
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now I like it with some limitations so
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let me tell you again it's a 16 degree
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angle it has anti slip silicone pads so
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the idea is you can put really any
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laptop on here and it'll stay at
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whatever point you put it so here I
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don't have it all the way down to the
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ends and that's ok because it stays
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there it's not gonna slide down I am
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pretty sure I could stand on this I'm
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not going to but it'll take a pretty
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heavy laptop so you don't have to worry
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of
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this you know weight of your laptop and
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by itself this thing's incredibly
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lightweight I mean really you barely
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notice it but here's the biggest
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limitation it doesn't fold it doesn't
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fold up it doesn't disassemble it's
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really designed to build and then sit
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just like this basically forever so what
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this means is this is not something
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you're to carry with you this is much
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more likely something you're going to
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put on your desk at work for example and
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then maybe when you get to work then you
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put your laptop on it and maybe have a
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big monitor here or something so in that
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environment it can work pretty well but
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if you're gonna use this for you know
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working at a mobile coffee shop or
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something then you're gonna want to
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think about how you're gonna transport
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it because it is not hugely portable and
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then there's the angle so I would
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recommend you try with books and stuff
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try that 16 degree angle and see what
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that feels like before you get one of
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these and you know otherwise it's really
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nicely made it's a really nice grade of
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aluminum and there's lots to like about
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it and it's durable and has a hundred
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percent lifetime guarantee so I suppose
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if I did stand on it and break it that
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they would replace it I would have to
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explain to them what I was doing because
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I'm sure it's not guaranteed against
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people standing on it but there you go
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so laptop stand this is one really nice
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option it's aluminum ike unix and it's
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very very affordable so if you try it
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and you don't like it you're not out
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very much but before we get to the price
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now the ike unix aluminum laptop stand
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is $19.99 at amazon.com and they have a
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variety of other stands and and other
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aluminum assemblies that you might want
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to check out too so this is dave taylor
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I'm putting my laptop back on the stand
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and I will catch you in my next video
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