Customer Reviews

Fellowes 8038401 Designer Suites - Laptop Riser

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This product is sturdy and looks very decent but it doesn't sit completely flat. If your hand or elbow tap the sides of it the tray will rotate a few degrees. It seems like they could have made the bottom more flat or added rubber tips on the bottom corners to keep it from turning. Otherwise the product works very well and gives an optimal viewing angle for my laptop. If i had to split hairs I'd ask them to make the lip a tiny bit taller so the laptop doesn't slide over the lip and off the tray but I'm being a little paranoid when I say that. Overall I like the product.

I guess this is a good stand for the price, if you have a 13 inch laptop, or maybe a mac book air, but font expect it to properly hold a 17 inch laptop. I have a 17 inch dell, with 2 hard drives (one ssd so it doest weigh much). My laptop has a keypad and number pad (as is common with dell 17, HP and Toshiba). The stand does not fully support my laptop, due to its size and weight. What is worse is its next to impossible to use the adjust button to tilt the laptop once you have it sitting on top of this thing.

I think I will go back to using a couple books for a stand.

I got this riser for use with a 2011 Macbook Air. It would be used for docking purposes with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Upon receiving the item, I can understand why some people would be hesitant about the size of the lip holding the laptop on. It's perfectly find for a thin Air, but with bulkier PC laptops, it might be a tad precarious. I have the thing set in its most tilted setting, and the bottom of the laptop LCD and my external Dell on a 5-inch stand line up perfectly. Given 100% choice, it would line up top-to-top, but it still makes it extremely useable. The lack of side guards is actually very good in that it makes it very easy to access the ports. And the unit has a good amount of friction, so I wouldn't ever worry about my laptop sliding off sideways.

I purchased this mainly for DJing purposes - a cheap alternative to the expensive stands that don't get very good reviews. It works well for my needs and is sturdy enough for a 15" MacBook Pro. It folds flat for easy transport as well.

I use to hate my laptop. This stand positions it at an angle and raises the screen higher. Coupled with a wireless mouse and a larger keyboard makes the laptop a pleasure to work on. Recommend for both personal and professional users.

That is, unless you want your laptop to slide off onto the floor. The front lip/ledge is not a tall enough barrier to stop any PC from sliding off. Also, the hard rubber-like strips along the sides, which are supposed to provide enough traction along the edges to keep the laptop from sliding off, are so far apart that smaller laptops and Netbooks (15 inches or less) will not be wide enough.

My laptop is a Dell G62 340US and usually runs pretty hot when sitting flat on my desk. With a separate keyboard and wireless mouse attached, it was also difficult to see the keypad on the laptop and screen because I needed to place them farther away. I knew a laptop riser stand would solve all three problems, so I purchased this riser from Staples and set it up immediately to test it. The open bottom perfectly solved the problem of overheating by allowing air to circulate underneath the laptop and letting the heat generated by the laptop dissipate into the room. It contained a latch that you release to change the viewing angle which raised the screen for a more comfortable viewing angle, tilted the keypad toward me, and I was also able to bring the entire laptop closer to me. The only problem as many reviewers have already mentioned was the lip that is supposed to secure the laptop from sliding when raised to higher viewing angle was not high enough to support my unit. So, I was able to improvise and solve the problem with a Barnes and Noble aluminum bookmark that I crazy glued securely to the plastic lip and it acted as an extension shelf to perfectly secure the laptop from sliding even at the highest viewing angle. With this small do-it-yourself modification, I highly recommend this accessory if you've had similar problems with your laptop. Please note, that this is not a travel riser and will not collapse into a flat travel package, but it is good to use at home or keep at work.

Purchased for a 14-in laptop that had a tendency to run hot. Before this, was using the Kensington Cooling Stand that had issues. This one works great - keeps laptop cooler and allows me to change the viewing angle. Ledge at the bottom keeps laptop from sliding off the riser. Able to use this on a desk or on my lap. Only wish it was more portable (I used to be able to fit the Kensington in my laptop bag).

Bought the riser to lift the laptop and clear some place on my working desk and it does exactly this.
It hold the computer rather firmly and raise it to a very nice height.

It looks a bit bulky, but it does the job and it's very cost-effective.

This product features a little plastic edge on the front that is supposed to prevent your computed from sliding off. Unfortunately, the edge is very narrow. If I had to guess, I would say that it is less than a centimeter wide. Thus, if you have a normal or larger laptop, if you raise the platform up too high, the computer slides forward and right off. I would only recommend this if you have one of those super thin computers or if your desk is already pretty high and so are only looking to raise the screen a few inches. If you have a normal laptop and you sit at an average table or desk, you will not be able to get the screen to eye level without running the risk that it will slide forward and off the platform. For example, you will never be able to get your laptop to the height shown in the picture of this ad.