Since having your wrists bent in weird angles while typing is the root cause of wrist pain and damage, having my wrists straight should help. My arm/wrist/hand was almost a straight line as I typed. With the higher table, I found the angle much more comfortable. My kitchen table is about the same height as a desk, so I tried the stand on it. However, I do plan to replace this table with a standard desk, so I decided I should also try the Ergo-Tilt on something with a standard height. My wrists are too flexed, with the hands angled back toward my arms, when I’m using the very low table. The stand, when sitting on the very low table, isn’t as comfortable for my wrists as I’d like, though. It does raise the screen enough that I don’t slouch as much to view the screen, so my back and neck feel a bit more comfortable. Even being 5-foot-nothing, I find this table a bit low, so I was hoping the stand would make using the computer more comfortable. Normal desks are usually about 29” tall, but my stand is only about 24” tall. Not only is the tabletop small, but the stand is very low, too. I’ve mentioned my tiny laptop table (too?) many times. You unfold the leg at the back into a single position. The angle/height of the Ergo-Tilt stand isn’t adjustable. That means the stand takes up much more real estate on my tiny laptop table than it should to fit my laptop. It’s not very much wider, but it is about 2.25” deeper than needed for my laptop. Because I have a 13” MacBook Pro, you can see that the stand is bigger than the laptop. I already mentioned that the Ergo-Tilt is one-size-fits-all-laptops. The front of my laptop is tall enough that the tabs were below the level of the laptop’s wrist rest area. I was a little afraid that the retaining tabs would dig into my wrists and make using the stand uncomfortable, but that wasn’t the case. Of course, I tried out both stands with my laptop.
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My MacBook Pro worked well on the yellow stand without the retaining tabs.
Info from Herb said they had recently added the tabs to their molds to prevent laptops with very rounded fronts from slipping over the raised lip. At first, I thought both the yellow and pink stands were exactly the same, but I quickly realized that the pink stand had a raised tab at each end of the raised lip. The front of the stand has a raised lip to prevent the laptop from sliding off the stand. The stands can be branded for any reseller by replacing these stickers with another logo.
The labels have the Ergo-Tilt logo and URL on them. There is a large paper label on the surface of the stand area and a small one centered on the raised lip area. The Ergo-Tilt URL is molded into the raised lip. I was surprised when I received both a yellow and a pink stand. It is currently available in black, yellow, lime, and pink, although they also show a couple other colors in pictures on their website. There’s a hinge at the back that opens to raise the back end of the stand to about 3 inches. I couldn’t fit it on my digital kitchen scale very easily, but the website says the stand weighs 8.9 oz. I measured it at about 13.6” X 12.10” X 0.75” when closed. The Ergo-Tilt is a one-size-fits-all-laptops product.
Even their packaging is made from recycled materials. They are all plastic with no metals, so the stands are easily recyclable. Ergo-Tilt stands are assembled in workshops for challenged individuals. To make things easy on us here in the US, they even have a US page with prices shown in American dollars. I have that option unchecked.Ergo-Tilt is a Canadian company, but they ship internationally. There's a setting in "Startup and Recovery" that says "Automatically restart" if system fails. Also, the reason you report instant restart whereas I report freezing is probably due to different settings in WinXP. PS: I also have WinXP Pro with SP3 on both comps (but not all the other patches). Switching out to a 7600GS solved all those issues.
(I had a thread about it here, and the furmark/gpu-z issue was brought up as well.) I abandoned that video card for my own comp, even though it's the best AGP card I have, because I was also experiencing random crashes in BF1942. Without gpu-z, FurMark runs, except it does not report temp. I was usually able to run furmark for maybe up to 30 secs before everything froze if I had gpu-z also running. The same result in both: 1.) no temperature displayed in FurMark, and 2.) trying to run FurMark + GPU-Z at the same time (to monitor temp) causes it to completely freeze. I played around with an X800 XL that I inherited from friend in both of these comps. I have 2 oldie comps, one that I'm still using myself and the other that I passed on to my lil bro. I can confirm that I get the exact same results.
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