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Much cheaper though.
Geez. Spend $3,000 on luxury laptop, can't afford a $100 external monitor.
You wouldn't want to use a $100 monitor after that Retina display.
DIY MacBook Stand
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Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#92It's nice but a Samsung FullHD 24" PLS (Samsungs IPS) cost about 130 euro's nowadays. The DPI is to cry about but it beats working on Maybe this solution is nice and useful because you can take it with you together with the keyboard and trackpad and get a reasonable working posture anywhere?
Your comment confused me at first, because it didn't even occur to me that people would use this stand to correct their posture when working with the laptop on a desk.
I use a laptop stand (stacked carton boxes) at work to use it alongside my two 24" monitors. If I weren't lazy I would build this stand and use it so my desk would look nicer.
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It looks laser cut, most schools would have a laser cutter nowadays because they’re stupidly easy to use. It would be difficult, and inadvisable to print something this large on a regular 3D printer. Thingyverse is literally full of designs like this and often much better. https://www.thingiverse.com/search/page:1?q=Laptop+stand&sa=...
It's not laser cut. I used a MakerBot Replicator 2. It was actually quite easy to print. I designed it roughly two years ago after browsing thingiverse and getting bad print results with the larger stands. The smaller single-piece stands were too flimsy/unstable. I also wanted the stand to be just big enough to fit a Lenovo docking station under it.
So you printed it in pieces and assembled it?
I’m sorry to be harsh but this is the kind of thing we get undergrads to do on day one of an internship. Why do you feel it was worthy of posting on HN?
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#94I use this: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20302596/ . Works great at the desk for me since I don't use an external monitor.
Isn't the screen still pretty low when you use that? (That's actually my gripe with most laptop stands, come to think of it.)
For me, it was a good improvement compared to the stock laptop position (13" MBP). I guess it reduced the angle of neck-crane by half so for the price, I was pretty happy.
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Do you mean downloading using unsupported 3rd party tools? Because those have to be regularly updated to ensure they even work and could some day stop working entirely if Google decided to care about blocking such tools. In comparison, GitHub offers a simple clone button (among ways) which gives you everything.
Youtube-dl? I mean I get your argument but op isn’t wrong. YouTube is reallly easy to rip content from.
And the point of that argument is that youtube-dl only works because Google doesn't care, and the need to patch it regularly is only caused by the incidental changes in the service. When Google starts caring for some reason, it'll be a difficult battle.
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#96I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)
What is that ikea thingy?
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Well, at least you can easily get your and other people's data out of GitHub (unlike e.g. YouTube and Facebook). It would be easy to create a giant mirror of GitHub, for example (once you have a distributed storage system). Also, GitHub doesn't control what users are viewing (unlike YouTube and Facebook), which makes the platform less of a threat to internet freedom.
I'd consider Youtube to be one of the top easiest sites to get one's data (or someone else's!) out of. Why do you think it's not?
1. It's not legal (see ToS).
2. Google can block it any moment, or inject ads.
3. You don't get the original data, but a transcoded version. And/or a watermarked version.
In contrast, GitHub is intended to download data from, so above points will never apply.
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#98I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)
What is that ikea thingy?
Looks like a shelving frame* with a door handle to hold the laptop.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not laser cut. I used a MakerBot Replicator 2. It was actually quite easy to print. I designed it roughly two years ago after browsing thingiverse and getting bad print results with the larger stands. The smaller single-piece stands were too flimsy/unstable. I also wanted the stand to be just big enough to fit a Lenovo docking station under it.
So you printed it in pieces and assembled it? I’m sorry to be harsh but this is the kind of thing we get undergrads to do on day one of an internship. Why do you feel it was worthy of posting on HN?
But I like the simplicity of the design, the poster’s first hand experience, mentioning other designs, and the idea of leaving usable room underneath the laptop. Further, it’s nicely illustrated with a photo.
Not, perhaps, a mathematical tour de force but useful information. Just like the numerous reports on HN of IKEA products used to prop up monitors. These ideas won’t win a Turing Award but are often clever and give me ideas to try out myself.
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#100No one heard of thingiverse?
I think this is great and like the approach to the design! Amazingly it was almost 10 years ago that I put mine up on Thingiverse - thing 32, while we were still testing before making Thingiverse public :) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:32
Does the cardboard version in the photos work, or was that just a prototype?