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Sadly, certain ergonomic features are compromised to the sake of portability. Good posture, keyboard spacing, screen measurement and positioning, and pointing devices usually take the best ergonomic hit.

Even though laptops are designed for portability, many people use them being a desktop computer. Despite the poor ergonomics inherent generally in most laptops, certain steps could be taken to create any sound ergonomic laptop setup as a desktop. Whether it’s being a main computer or a temporary setup, you can  set yourself and ergonomics.

General Ergonomic Points

* Make your laptop setup as near to the desktop ergonomic computer station setup as you can.
* Keep the wrists while in the most natural wrist position you could achieve.
* Rotate the screen in order that bending of the keyboard is minimized.

One of the best Ergonomic Laptop Solution – Try a laptop docking station. These devices let you plug in the laptop to a base station that includes a monitor, keyboard and rabbit already connected. You basically employ a desktop setup with any removable computer that just happens to have a keyboard and screen attached.

If a docking station is from the budget or otherwise impractical do your next best thing. Have other keyboard and mouse for the desk. This lets you place the laptop for the correct monitor position and have a comfortable keyboard and mouse at their suitable locations.

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There are now a lot of people who work from home. They may either work from home all of the time, as a small business owner. Or they may telecommute for another company, either part time or full time.

For people who spend at least some of their time working from home, what are the essential technological items that they should own?

Almost any home office will tend to have the same central hub-the personal computer. It isn’t necessary to have the best, and fastest computer available, but you do need one that is reliable and that won’t repeatedly crash, as this will hurt your productivity. A good monitor can reduce eye strain and make it easier to work for longer periods of time.

An internet connection is likely to be the second most important thing for you. A reliable, high speed connection will enable you to contact clients, send and receive emails regarding ongoing or upcoming work, and send finished work on to the clients who are awaiting it.

A dedicated phone line for your business will be needed if you make and receive a lot of calls. This will help to prevent you getting personal calls on the line during business hours, and can mean that you focus on only the one phone when working, ignoring the other. Read the rest of this entry →

When someone refers to a laptop or a notebook, they are talking about a portable computer. The term laptop came about because the computer itself is small enough to fit on ‘top’ of your ‘lap’.

Pretty simple really. It is amazing how technology has evolved from needing a whole entire room to house a computer machine — to being able to have high speed internet and 200 GIGABYTES of information right in your lap!

Laptop computers really became popular around 1983 with the first ever portable computer, the Compaq Portable. They were not called laptop computers quite yet at that time, they were called “luggables.” Read the rest of this entry →