Push your laptop about half a foot from the edge of the table/surface you’re using – the surface being just above elbow level when sitting – and rest your arms on the table, your hands on the keyboard. I also tend to lean forward onto my arms.

Tada! No undue stress on the limbs.

I think I have to leave my pc on my desk and not drag my laptop around like some kind of indispensible , neck wrenching appendage.

Viva la internet

Doctors Say Laptops Causing Crippling Back, Muscle and Nerve Problems for Millions

Back specialists say as many as four in five patients have chronic nerve damage caused by working on portable PCs and millions more are at risk of injury. Laptops account for 70 percent of all computer sales, according to PC Pro magazine.

Nicola Hunter, a physiotherapist and occupational health specialist, said that hand and arm pain similar to repetitive strain injury is easily induced by resting wrists against the edge of a laptop. She added: “There’s evidence that it stops the nerves and tendons moving as they normally would, and this can cause nerve injury.”

My Ergonomic Workstation – No More Pain
I completely changed my work station after years of crippling carpal tunnel injuries caused by bad ergonomics. It got so bad at one point that I couldn’t squeeze a tube of toothpaste or pick up a cup of coffee. I was, in fact, on disability for nearly a year, unable to type or hold a pen. I’m fine now, because I changed the way I work. Here’s what I did:

These days, I use
- a Cirque EasyCat Touchpad instead of a regular mouse,
- a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, a keyboard tray that sits at lap level,
- and a fabulous Therapod chair that I got from ergonomics king Joel Kendall of Kenebowe.
- I never talk on the phone for more than a few minutes without a headset and I never – ever – hold the phone between my ear and my neck while typing. That’s where the whole problem begins!

“Laptops outsell desktops, they are almost as powerful.”

Almost as powerful my ass. Even the most powerful laptops today do not touch the most powerful desktops from last year. If they were as powerful, desktop computers would be the size of a laptop.

Other than that almost everything a human can do would be crippling it. Go read a book, oh wait you might get crippled.

I can plug one cord into my laptop and it’s connected to a separate monitor, keyboard, and mouse. When I need to take the laptop with me. I unplug the cord, pack up the power supply, and go on my way.