Laptop Ergonomics For Mobile Professionals
Posted on Jan 05, 2009 | Comments 1
The New Year is a great time to get yourself organized and make virtuous resolutions.
It’s also as good as any to face an unpleasant fact: Your notebook is not your friend. Yes, it helps you be productive.
But here’s what happens when you’re using a laptop on the road: You tilt your neck down to look at the screen.
Meanwhile, you bend your wrists in order to type on the keyboard. And you do this for hours–in hotel rooms, airplanes, conference rooms, and other places not exactly known for proper ergonomic set-ups.
“Laptops are inherently unergonomic–unless you’re 2 feet tall,” is how physician Norman J. Marcus put it recently in The Wall Street Journal.
What can you do about it? Read on.
At the Office
When you’re working at home or at the office, you’ve got a lot more control over your ergonomics. Some essential tips are mentioned here.
Read more at PC World
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That is true, laptops are horribly unergonomic. I use one, and have for a while, so I know how great they can be. But if you are going to use one as your main PC and have an office area, consider a laptop stand (I got one, and it is nice to look straight at the screen…you would also need to get a keyboard tray though…) They are relatively inexpensive, they put the laptop screen at your eye level, and overall, make something unergonomic ergonomic.