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The AboveTEK Adjustable Lap Desk is a great addition for anyone who works or plays with their computer laptop on their legs, not only improving ergonomics but shielding you from heat too. WIth three adjustable angles and a slide-out mouse tray, it's quite flexible. As tech expert Dave Taylor demonstrates, it's also darn helpful if you work at a table, counter, or desk too, and is highly portable for your commute.
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this simple device will change how you
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work with your laptop let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and I'll tell you I
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spend a lot of time working on my
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various laptops I have Chromebooks I
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have Windows I have Macintosh systems
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and they're all in different sizes but I
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often end up sitting at a table just
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like this or I end up sitting on a couch
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or onor another comfortable space and
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having it on my lap now there's a couple
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of problems with having your computer on
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your lap one of which is heat but more
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to the point it's also ergonomically
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pretty awful it's just a bad angle and
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you end up having this cramps as you
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sort of can't really get it to be
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optimal angles and everything
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so
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enter
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this this is the above Tech adjustable
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lap desk and it's something you can use
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on a Surface like this if I want to just
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simply have my laptop raised up a little
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bit so I can do that and then if we just
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generally it's easier to open your
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laptop first you put it on there's a
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little lip in the front can you see that
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little lip here and that comes up and
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now it holds the laptop and look at how
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that angle is so different this is so
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much more ergonomically friendly and it
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actually has three different angles so
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let me just put this over here for a
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minute and you can have it be on the
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first notch or the second notch or the
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third Notch and that gives you
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23° 30° and 35° now I will say I like
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the lowest of the three at 23° that
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seems to work really well for me and
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here's something else really awesome if
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you actually have this on your
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lap there's a little mouse tray that
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slides out it slides out it can be
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pretty big or you can just slide it out
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partway and it's just big enough to have
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your mouse there or maybe a wirless
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track pad or something whatever so
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really nice it's made out of PU leather
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which is actually polyurethane which
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means it's no animals were harmed in the
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making of this product and as you can
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see it is a nice texture it is a sort of
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slip resistant texture that they have on
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it and this side is super super plain as
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you would expect but inside there's also
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a heat shield so here's one of the other
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great benefits is even if you use it
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just like this on your lap it's still
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going to protect you from the heat
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that's generated by a lot of laptops so
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that's really important now this is a
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14-in screen this is the honestly
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optimal size for this device so when I
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put this on here you can see that
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there's some space on both sides here
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and weightwise this is a lighter laptop
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so this is really a pretty positive
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really optimal setup for this particular
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lap stand or desk but if we get into my
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MacBook Pro and this is a
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2024 MacBook Pro this is a big chonker
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this is a 16in screen in fact above Tech
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recommends you don't do anything above
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15.6 in so this is Tech te Al too big
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for this lap desk but let's give it a
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shot and see how it works anyway again
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if you open it up just a little bit
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first let me show you that at the side
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and that's just to make it a little
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easier to get that lip but now that I
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have it on here you can see there's no
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space on the side this is basically the
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same width as the actual lap desk and
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that's why it's a little tricky it's
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just a heavy laptop to have on here but
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having said that and having gone against
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their policies and recommendations I
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still have used this with great success
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on my lap and worked for periods of time
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and it's just a more comfortable angle
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it just makes my whole sort of my body
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feel better after doing this for a
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couple of hours it just sort of cuts
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down on that fatigue and of course if I
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want to change things up I can always
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just drop it back down
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and because this has a track pad I don't
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really need the mouse that pad that
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comes out of the side but still it's
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nice to have that however as I said this
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is technically a bit too big for the
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stand now let me show you a couple of
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closeups and tell you that Dimensions
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wise it is 14.6 in by 10.2 in by 4/10 of
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an inch thick it is a very thin device
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it's a little heavier than you might
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expect at 1.7 lb and the reason for that
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is that heat shield so that's an
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important factor that's something that
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you really want to have and the company
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rates it up to 15.6 in
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laptops again your mileage may vary they
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say that it doesn't work really well
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with those big heavy gamer laptops too
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so even if you have a 15-in laptop
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designed for gaming it's still going to
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be heavier and that might not be optimal
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but if you have a lightweight 13 14 15in
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PC or Mac or MacBook Air or something
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all of those are going to work
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beautifully with this device and it's
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going to just be sort of a really lowkey
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revolution in how you're working with
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your laptop I really like these sort of
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things and this one's a real nice one
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because it's easy to adjust all the
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Angles and there are some computers
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where I do have a little wireless mouse
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and having this little tray that pops
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out out is pretty nice now you can
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imagine you could be using this on an
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airplane too and that would be even
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better because now you actually can have
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the surface you want instead of being
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constrained to those little tiny little
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um tray tables you just put this on the
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tray table and you're ready to go with a
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much safer environment so winwin all
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around so that's primarily what I've got
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I am actually a pretty big fan of this
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it's not the most exciting piece of
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technology in the world but it is kind
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of a game changer if you have never
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tried one of these now I am going to ask
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cool now this let me open up a little
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bit here this is the above Tech
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adjustable lap desk and it is a very
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simple and straightforward
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$29.99 at amazon.com and if you know
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someone who spends a lot of time with
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their laptop on their lap or that just
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if you yourself are working constantly
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on tables and wish you had something
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simple and easily transportable that
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gave you different angles and different
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ability to work this is it definitely
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one worth checking out that's all I got
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I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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