Friday, January 7, 2011

The benefits of Ergonomic Laptops

A user friendly laptop will always be ergonomic. Irrespective of factors at home or at workstation, the user is able to use the ergonomic laptop at his or her convenience.

Since it is friendlier than regular laptops, it yields several benefits, the most noticeable of which is its portable nature. You can use it to work in almost any place instead of trapped in a fixed workstation with its clumsy desk and chair. Its battery gives average 5-6 hours of life so that user should not need to be worried over electricity shortage until the next charging point.


It isn’t easy to differ which laptops are ergonomic. If you look at it from wireless aspect, well, all laptops are designed to minimize the use of wires. So it isn’t proper to judge an ergonomic laptop from wires. However, you can look at it from the clearest signs of a laptop to be ergonomic, that is, its keyboard. In fact, all laptops are equipped with this – and this is the main difference of laptops from those semi-laptops: tablets.

Nevertheless, not all keyboards are friendly with user. A 17-inch laptop yields more pads than a 14-inch, which means that typing will be made easier. It will be more pleasant for your fingers to dance over a complete keyboard pad rather than one with some pads had been reduced.

An ergonomic laptop should also reduces injuries and back strain. When you work with desktop, your back and neck will easily get strained. Your productivity will be reduced at some levels because you often have to adjust the monitor or keyboard to be more convenient with your back and neck demands – it took some time and energy and resulting in you got annoyed.

Now you can adjust the height of your working tool or the screen of your laptop easily. Not all laptops screen can be adjusted so as to fall down into 180 degree though. One with such feature is Toshiba laptop – all series, as far as I know. Now you can safe your eyes too because you can adjust your laptop’s lighting system. In the dark, you can make it brighter and vice versa – however, all laptops basically have this feature.***