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Macworld August 2008
Stay-at-Home mobile accessories
by Dan Frakes, Macworld.com August 15, 2008
Most laptop gear is designed to enhance your mobile life, but what about all those hours you spend using your portable at home? Today's Mobile Mac takes a look at a couple laptop accessories for your humble abode.
Kangaroom Bamboo laptop Stand
Unlike many of the laptop stands we've reviewed, Kangaroom's Bamboo Laptop Stand isn't designed to lift your notebook up to an ideal working height (or at least that's not its primary purpose). Instead, the ecologically-friendly platform - its made of sustainable bamboo - aims to keep your desk free of wires and gadgets. On the right-hand side of the stand are two "cradles", each 3.2 inches long, 1.4 inches wide, and 1.5 inches deep, with an opening at the bottom for a charging/docking cable; you pull the cable for your iPod, iPhone, or other phone or portable player through the opening, plug it into the devise, and then rest the device in the cradle. (Unfortunately, there are no clips or grooves inside the cradles to keep your cords from falling underneath the stand.)
To further reduce cable clutter, the back of the Stand is open for hiding a surge protector - not included, although Kangaroom sells an appropriately-sized model for $13 - underneath. You then plug all your power adapters into this power strip to keep them, and their cables, hidden beneath the Stand. There's also a large opening in the middle of the Stand to provide ventilation for your laptop.
The Bamboo laptop Stand is quite solid; its wood is attractively finished; and its overall width - 20 inches - isn't much wider thatn a 15-inch MacBook Pro sitting next to an iPod dock. (the Stand is 12 inches deep).
