However, if your job involves any of this sort of work, you’ll see a big benefit by investing in a desktop monitor and connecting the laptop to it. It’s not a necessity, especially if your laptop has a fairly big display and you’re not working intently on tiny text, numbers or image pixels. If someone still manages to catch a toe on the power bar cable, being wrapped around the table leg will prevent it from yanking the laptop. This way the cord isn’t stretched out like a trip wire. And I wrap the power bar cable once around the table leg. Yanking the whole laptop off the table is a possibility, and that never ends well.Īny time I set up a laptop to work on a table I plug the power adapter into a power bar instead of a wall outlet.
That means plugging in the power adapter.Īnd that can mean cords that are stretched pretty tight - perfect for someone (or a pet) to trip over. Laptops have longer battery life than ever, but if you’re going to be working on them all day with Wi-Fi going all that time and the display turned up nice and bright, that may not translate into true “all-day” battery life.
