Millenium Laptopstand

I bought two of these to elevate my midi keyboard (Alesis VI49) on my desktop to have a wee bit more space for my desktop junk. It worked as expected! Even a single one might have been enough, but two seems more stable to me. The keyboard is almost a meter long.

Pros are,
it is very affordable for a laptopstand and has very sturdy, metal construction.
Its height is adjustable and it comes with foam padding on both surfaces.
Price is almost unbeatable!
Cons are,
the angle is fixed and adjusting something requires complete disassembly.
While using two of them to carry a thing, a keyboard in my case, two units are not identical to each other and one feet on each unit doesn't really undertake the weight as much as other two feet.

But since the actual usecase is different than what I use them for, I can't really complain...

Great work Thomann! Cheers,

Ich habe seit einiger Zeit zwei davon auf dem Schreibtisch. Damit kommen meine Laptops auf die gleiche Hoehe wie meine Monitore. Auch im Live-Einsatz mit einem USB-DJ-Controller tut er seinen Dienst.

Der Staender ist ausserordentlich stabil, da aus solidem Blech gefertigt. Auf der Oberseite ist Moosgummi aufgebracht, das den Laptop am Absturz hindert und gleichzeitig ein Alu-Gehaeuse nicht verkratzt.

Die Hoehenverstellung erfolgt durch auseinanderschrauben, was zwar etwas dauert, aber die Stabilitaet erhoeht.

Spielt man staendig an unterschiedlichen Orten, so ist dieser Staender etwas zu klobig; er laesst sich wie gesagt nicht falten und selbst zerlegt ist er etwas unhandlich und schwer. Das war fuer mich aber kein Kriterium.

This stand doesn't fold. It also doesn't have an angle adjustment. If you need a folding laptop stand or something with a quick height adjustment, look elsewhere.

So, the annoying thing here is that height adjustment requires taking the whole thing apart and assembling it to the height you need. But the good things are that this stand is stable, it can be assemled to two different widths (30 cm or 22 cm, measured from outer edges) by exchanging the left and right parts, or you can assemble the legs wider than the top for increased stability. The foam padding used is likely to wear out in use and will need replacement over time.

Since the sides have plenty of holes for height adjustment, you can mix and match parts from multiple laptop stand kits to make a more complex stand, or bolt on any other things you might want attached to the stand.

Over all, for my limited needs for laptop stands this is the perfect choice.

When is a laptop stand a way more than a stand?

When it supports pretty much anything reasonably sized.

Sure, your corporate-sized workstation laptop hovering on this somewhat industrial-looking stand might look a bit weird in a corporate-styled environment but, curious looks aside, it did the job. Not to mention that it's still a nicer solution compared to stacking two packs of print paper under your laptop. And also probably cheaper than corporation-procured paper.

Next use - in studio/live. situation. The stand is stable enough to allow you walking normally, that is without a cat-like care, around your equipment - in my case a laptop, in some other cases a small mixer for personal amplification and ... a heavy psalm book.

This is a really multi-purpose stand limited only by your imagination and physics. But if you bear in mind the latter, it will serve you forever.