On Your Lap: Playing With Corsair’s Lapdog

[heirdeux]

Corsair brought along its Bulldog living room gaming PC at CES, so we tried its counterpart, called the Lapdog. The chassis is placed on your lap and has space for a full keyboard as well as a mouse.

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[cknobman]

I could accomplish (and have) a similar feat by getting myself a $4 piece of plywood and cutting, sanding, finishing it.
Then attaching some $5 foam/bean pillow(s) to the bottom of it.

So for less than $15 and maybe an hours worth of work I have something similar.
Put on my keyboard, mouse pad, and mouse.............good to go.

 

[c_for]

I did this by picking up a Lapdesk
and attaching my keyboard to it with velcro. Offset the keyboard so half hangs off the edge and you are left with more than enough mouse room. It looks a hell of a lot better than this too.

 

[Tykkopoles]

Looks like an ergonomics nightmare to me... I see no elbow support at all, meaning your wrist will have to do a lot of craning to work right. I'll pass. For now I'll stick with my Steam Controller for couch gaming.

 

[stoned_ritual]

Corsair branded lapdesk, now with 250% more cost, because logos!

 

[stoned_ritual]

Corsair branded lapdesk, now with 250% more cost, because logos!

 

[jaber2]

I could accomplish (and have) a similar feat by getting myself a $4 piece of plywood and cutting, sanding, finishing it.
Then attaching some $5 foam/bean pillow(s) to the bottom of it.

So for less than $15 and maybe an hours worth of work I have something similar.
Put on my keyboard, mouse pad, and mouse.............good to go.

Add your logo and sell it for $69

 

[hitman400]

I could accomplish (and have) a similar feat by getting myself a $4 piece of plywood and cutting, sanding, finishing it.
Then attaching some $5 foam/bean pillow(s) to the bottom of it.

So for less than $15 and maybe an hours worth of work I have something similar.
Put on my keyboard, mouse pad, and mouse.............good to go.

So in other words, you made $9 an hour and spent it on a lap tray. Yikes, $9/hour? I would rather spend my time earning more. That's how I like to see things.

 

[Mac266]

So in other words, you made $9 an hour and spent it on a lap tray. Yikes, $9/hour? I would rather spend my time earning more. That's how I like to see things.

That doesn't even make sense. So because he spent $9 making something that's all the money he makes? Riiiight.

Personally, I would have liked to see something like this, but cordless.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I feel like if you were to position the keyboard relatively in front of you, it would be off-balanced.

 

[CircuitWIzardry]

I could accomplish (and have) a similar feat by getting myself a $4 piece of plywood and cutting, sanding, finishing it.
Then attaching some $5 foam/bean pillow(s) to the bottom of it.

So for less than $15 and maybe an hours worth of work I have something similar.
Put on my keyboard, mouse pad, and mouse.............good to go.

So in other words, you made $9 an hour and spent it on a lap tray. Yikes, $9/hour? I would rather spend my time earning more. That's how I like to see things.

Uhhh... Perhaps you should try and figure out your own skills and how to make money. Corsair says the Lapdog without keyboard and mouse will be $89. By building his own (note you didn't disagree with his hour estimate, so we'll use that), he saves $89 (what it would have cost to buy) - $15 (what he spent making his version) = $64. So, if you wish to look at what he is making by building this, it is $64, If he could make that hourly, that's about $133K a year, not a bad job. With the mad math skills you exhibited with figuring his wages for this at $9/hour, I'll bet it more likely you're working McD's that pulling in over $133K a year!

 

[zthomas]

I have floated a keyboard in my lap for years.. always had a flat place for the mouse close by.. its a bit much for a large board with everything shifting with your body.. just to much to ask..