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Ten of the Best... laptop stands

Give your knees a rest

Belkin CushTop

Belkin CushTop

Belkin has come at the lap rest from a whole different direction with its Sponge Bob SquareTop offering. Basically a big, stiff 37.5 x 30 x 10cm foam cushion with a very grippy cover and a hollow centre into which you can stuff your power brick – as long as it's a small one - cables or indeed an entire Acer Aspire One. Of all the lap rests here, the CushTop raises your laptop closest to your natural line of sight when sitting down which may appeal to the more elderly customer. Not only does it work a treat as a laptop rest it also doubles up has a handy pillow/foot rest/general-padded-thing-a-me-jig about the lounge. Available in four colour schemes, we like the CushTop not least because it doesn't look like a laptop stand though the flip side of that is it's almost useless as a desktop stand.

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Port Design Lap Desk

Port Design Lap Desk

Port Design's Lap Desk has a trick up its sleeve that gives it an edge over the other lap rests on review: a fold-out mouse pad. This is something we like a lot, not least because most of our on-lap laptop usage is done with an Acer Aspire One, a device that doesn't exactly have the best track pad/button combo around so we always have a travel mouse plugged in. Now we have a place to use the mouse. Excellent! The Lap Desk is also compact and light enough to be truly portable. Downsides? It doesn't raise the angle of your laptop one iota when set on a desk and the mouse pad could do with a higher-friction surface. Like the Logitech, this is a one size fits all gadget that worked just fine with anything from an AA1 to a 17in MacBook Pro.

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Price €30
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