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I don't see much point to this, it barely props up your laptop at all. You're still going to get tech neck. I recently got a nexstand, external keyboard, and mouse and it has been amazing.
Nexstand is the way, I got one and never looked back. I use a touchpad instead of a mouse though.
It's pricier but lighter and more compact.
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Also terrible for the environment. The energy cost of buying this online, the carbon cost behind the $22 + shipping, the actual carbon cost of shipping this crap. We are truly living in the most idiotic timeline.
What would a less idiotic timeline look like?
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If you're going to buy a laptop stand anyway and you have the choice between A) a plastic stand or B) this recycled stand, does it make more or less sense, in terms of environmental impact, to buy the plastic stand over this one? > ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you. This presupposes the economies of scale. One plane is not leaving South Korea la…
> One plane is not leaving South Korea laden with just one laptop stand and nothing else, and one delivery truck is not leaving the Fedex or UPS depot almost entirely empty save for one laptop stand destined for the consumer's house. Who do you imagine thought of it this way, and how does an objection to shipping trash require you to think this way? What normal people imagine is that a package containing this displac…
The argument being presented by the person I replied to said verbatim: "ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you."
> What you seem to be theorizing is that if these weren't being shipped, some other product would have been invented to take up the volume that it uses, or all other products would expand in order to fill the space.
We don't need to theorize or invent, the plastic products already exist. Go to Amazon and search for "laptop stand" and you'll find a glut of them. So I ask again, if you're going to buy a laptop stand anyway and you have the choice between A) a plastic stand or B) this recycled stand, is it better, in terms of environmental impact, to buy one of the hundreds of plastic stands shipped from South Korea, or this recycled stand shipped from South Korea?
Yes, you can fold one yourself (will it be stable enough though?). Yes, I wouldn't use it for a laptop either. But for a tablet it could work really nice.
Also shipping it around the world is a bit silly, like with most things. Too many people will order on Amazon or buy fruits from the other side of the world without a second thought. Get off your high horse.
So they're selling 22$ for a sheet of paper?
I don't see much point to this, it barely props up your laptop at all. You're still going to get tech neck. I recently got a nexstand, external keyboard, and mouse and it has been amazing.
My preferred design is like https://amzn.eu/d/0KB8nGM (2x U shapes of metal), which lets you have the keyboard underneath the laptop , so the laptop is as close to the edge of the desk as if you weren’t using an external keyboard