Fellowes Smart Suites Laptop Stand for Desk 3 Height Adjustable Portable Laptop Riser with USB Hubs for the Home and Office - Max Monitor Size 17", Max Weight 6KG - Black

As an author, I often spent 10 to 12 hours a day at my keyboard and often get a stiff neck and pains in my shoulders and arms. I am a touch typist but found I was squinting to read the text onscreen. I didn't want to invest in whole new desktop PC system as well as my existing 2 laptops but I had already bought a separate keyboard as this fits on the sliding shelf beneath my home work station and using this is better for my fingers and also prolongs the life of the laptop (laptops don't like having their keys pounded for 12 hours a day). However, the screen on the laptop was set too low and I couldn't get closer to see it better, because the keyboard of the laptop dictates the distance, so I still got neck ache.Thinking a larger monitor might be the solution, I started pricing up these at Amazon, but then I spotted the laptop riser and this made good sense. The price made it more appealing than having to acquire a monitor. It took around 5 mins to set up. I am 5' 6" tall and need to ensure my knees and elbows are at perfect right angles when I am sitting at my home workstation. Using both sets of rubber feet that came with the riser placed the screen of my 17" Dell studio laptop at the perfect level for me to view the laptop screen as I type. I no longer have neck and shoulder pain. To address some of the complaints of earlier reviewers, I would say:Strong smell of rubber - they must have resolved this because I have a keen sense of smell and the rubber feet gave off no odour even when waved under my nose.Scratched desktop - Using the stand without the rubber feet might, I suppose, scratch the desk top, but I fail to understand why anyone would buy this and not use it in the raised position. If you don't need to use the rubber feet then arguably you don't need this riser.Couldn't use laptop keys when laptop was in the riser - to this lady I would respectfully say you have missed the point. You should use this riser in conjunction with a separate keyboard. These are cheap enough to buy and you will prolong the life of your laptop if you use one. Standard keyboards are springier than laptop keyboards in any case and will not give you RSI to the same degree as constant use of laptop keys.USB port not functioning - all 4 of mine worked perfectly, though not quite so well when the 4 port gizmo was actually inserted into its slot in the back of the stand, but this is no problem for me as using the riser frees up desk space so the gizmo sits happily just behind the stand. and actually it's less fiddly to swap around gadgets this way.The part where the laptop rests on the riser being too big/loose - this seems to me to be an advantage as the machine will take laptops of all sizes (Mine are a 17" and a 10" and both fit fine). You wouldn't normally be moving the laptop about or otherwise disturbing it when in use, so not sure why this generously sized rest should be a problem, it holds my laptops securely enough.The riser is not portable - it is no less portable than the other gadgets I take out and about with me, such as a data projector etc, but I wouldn't take my riser out of my study in any case. This riser is ideal for your permanent home or office workstation, in my opinion.Other practical factors are that it is easy to dust around and beneath the riser without having to move the laptop (I once cracked a screen when lifting a laptop) and there is indeed a handy shallow receptacle at the front for keeping flash drives etc handy. I always seemed to be hunting around for my flash drives, only to find they slipped off the edge of the desk. All in all this riser has proven to be ideal for my purposes. I wish I had seen it long before now. Thank you Fellowes.

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I got one of these for a 15" MacBook Pro and haven't regretted it. It looks good, the desktop footprint is small, I find the height spot on and the built in USB hub is very handy. It also feels very sturdy and stable, which is reassuring if your laptop is expensive.It's lucky I find the height agreeable because it is hardly adjustable. You get two sets of rubber feet that each add about 1cm to the height of your screen. But the option of using the lowest adjustment doesn't appeal since it leaves the hard plastic of the riser itself in contact with your desk, with all the sliding and noisy possibilities that entails. So if, like me, you always keep at least one set of feet in place you're left with 1cm of height adjustment, which is hardly worth mentioning.Other drawbacks include the fact that the Fellowes riser appears to have been designed with brick-like 80's laptops in mind, since the gap between the transparent front cover and the back section on which the laptop rests is 4cm deep! Don't forget that your laptop is open when on the riser, so this leaves a yawning gap (about 3cm in my case) that the laptop is free to move around in. This is probably the biggest complaint I have about this riser.Other niggles? Well, though it is nice the have a supplied USB hub, it would have been better to have a powered hub that could support things like portable external hard drives. With the one supplied you should only hope to be able to plug in things like keyboards and mice before it overloads. But that is probably what it is there for, making unplugging your laptop more painless at the end of the day, but it does limit your options.I'm also undecided about the front "pocket". Using a Mac (without a MagicMouse) I would like to have access to the touchpad while the machine is in the riser, but the pocket blocks this, somewhat unnecessarily. However, because it is there I have found myself chucking little odds and ends (like USB keys) into it, which is actually very practical. Worth losing the touchpad for? Quite possibly. There's also stowage space available under the riser, which is also handy.All-in-all, despite some of the design issues, I'm very happy with my choice and heartily recommend this great looking stand.****1/2

after much deliberation as i have a 17" laptop by HP/Compaq, i.e. the bottom is curved not flat i decided to spend a little extra and choose this one to make sure it would hold the laptop in place. wow am i glad i chose it! this is a quality item, very strong and holds my awkward edged lol 17" laptop perfectly in place i doubt a brick could budge it ( i have the compaq prescario cq70). there is a nice gap underneath to tuck wires away and you even get two, yes two! 4 port usb hubs at the back where i can plug my wireless keyboard and mouse stick into and it is out of sight. to top it all off there is a nice little tray at the front to put a notebook or phone on, what else could you ask for? i must admit it actually looks pretty slick on my desk. for the money this is a quality item and probably one of the best stands out there.the one downside?i am about 6 foot, if you are any shorter than this, be warned, this stand is probably too small for you, even without the legs they give you to raise it the lowest height is pretty high up (i don't even need the legs to raise it the lowest is more than enough height for me), and you cannot change the angle it is fixed (although the pre fixed angle is perfect, can't imagine why anyone would want to change it especially as the key board is reduntant anyway) only the height of the base can be changed. but then if you are shorter than that you shouldn't need a riser lol, for me just absolutely perfect when i think of the nightmare of using those open fronted risers where my laptop would keep slipping off!hope that helps