The type of chair you sit in while using your laptop is critical. Any office chair that is fully adjustable and has lumbar support may work, but you need to be sure to set it up correctly. If your chair does not have adequate support, you may need a lumbar roll. Remember to sit all the way back in the chair so when you rest against it, the lumbar support is helping to maintain the natural curve in your lower back.
As for your neck and head position, your ears should always be above your shoulders, not in front. Set a reminder on your phone to take a brief break every half hour or so.
Get your eyes off the screen and let them rest on something in the distance. You can do simple stretches at your desk, such as stretching your neck, shoulders, arms, and legs. Every hour, leave your desk to walk around to get your blood flowing and muscles loose.
If it is not possible to walk, at least stand, stretch and move. Humans are mobile beings and not meant to sit still all day. For people who spend long hours working on laptops, try to spend an hour or two each day using your laptop while standing rather than sitting in a chair. You will need a separate keyboard and mouse and a multilevel setup to do this without straining your neck. Standing desks are popular options. Desktop converters enable you to keep your desk and temporarily convert it to a standup desk.
See Workplace Ergonomics and Neck Pain. If you typically lug your laptop between work and home, purchase a duplicate power cord and other laptop accessories—that way you can leave them in each place instead of carrying the extra load back and forth.
Laptop cooling pads have fans in them which help flow cool air keeping your laptop cool all time. It also helps raise your laptop. The laptop cooler will help cool the laptop from the bottom, reducing the temperature of the components.
This reduces the cooling and restricts air flow. Besides using a laptop cooler, clean out the dust using an air blower or a vacuum cleaner. Blow air slowly through the cooling vents on the sides or the back of the laptop.
If possible, take the laptop to a service center and ask for a maintenance run to be done. Not only will your laptop run cooler, you might find it running a little faster.
These can be considered to be safe temperatures for these components. Some of the ways of cooling down your laptop can be done by just tweaking some of the performance settings on your laptop.
One of the ways is to reduce the performance of the processor. Click on the Power Saver mode or go to the Advanced Settings under one of the existing power plans. If you occasionally want to stand up and work, this isn't a good option. Plus, it's not easy to tote from room to room. But if you're mostly going to sit at a desk, it'll do the job.
I've been working from home since , and even though I love my desk and my computer monitor , sometimes it's too hard to leave my bed in the morning or make it off the couch in the afternoon. The Nnewvante, which is also in our Home Office Gear guide, is a great stand for those lazier days.
You can't adjust the stand's height, but you can raise the base to an angle suitable to whatever you're doing—sketching, watching a movie on a tablet, eating breakfast, or typing on a laptop—and the built-in stopper keeps things from sliding off into your lap.
The smaller surface on the right stays flat and is a good place for your morning coffee. There's even a cute, small drawer for storing knickknacks! And when you're done with it, you can fold up the legs for slimmer storage.
Even better, it's made of bamboo and feels very nice. The leg joints are easily adjusted by pressing each button they lock again when they snap into place.
They both work on a desk or can be shimmied and tilted for working while you're lying down. The Uncaged stand also comes with a removable mouse pad. Neither is as sturdy as the Nnewvante, so we don't recommend using a separate keyboard on either of them—feverish typing detached from a laptop might cause them to shift around a bit—but you probably wouldn't do that from bed anyway.
The Nnewvante is great and affordable, but a lap desk is another good option for occasional work away from a regular desk. It even works in the car. Yogibo's lap desk has a squishy pillow bottom that's comfortable against your legs—not surprising from a company known for its pillows and bean bags —and a bamboo top.
Most importantly, the entire tray stays still as you type because there are no legs to wobble on. There's also a slot to hold up a tablet or phone for watching movies or video chatting. When you're done working, you can ditch the computer and use the lap desk for drawing or writing comfortably. Despite being simple and made of thin aluminum, this Rain Design stand is sturdy.
You can type away without worrying about it buckling and take it from your office to your living room or a coffee shop. It folds up to just 9. It also weighs less than a pound. It's a set height, raising a laptop about 5 inches at an angle. The mBar Pro Plus holds 9.
All are designed with Apple products in mind, but most should work with other laptops too; just be sure to check the measurements and description. The Varidesk is a solid option for standing, depending on your height. It raises your laptop 12 inches, which is 2 inches higher than the Moft stand below.
It may not reach your eye level, but I really enjoyed using it for short bursts of time during the day.
It folds down super flat, so it fits in my backpack, and it's light, at just over 2 pounds. The VariDesk also has a nice squeeze-to-unlock feature, so it won't collapse while you're using it. The Moft Z 5-in-1 stand can be easily configured into five different positions. At its tallest inch height, you can comfortably stand for a little while.
If you're standing for most of the day, go for the ObVus Solutions Tower, which can go higher and is more likely to reach eye level for most people. But what I really like about this one is that it's light and folds down to just half an inch thick, so you can take it anywhere without adding much bulk. This stand is made from one sheet of recycled stone paper which is made up of stone waste from the mining industry , and it's meticulously folded to give it an accordion-like design.
Unfurled, it holds your laptop steady—I was surprised it didn't buckle under the weight—with a nice viewing angle. You can then fold it up to an inch thick to take it anywhere.
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