Question re: Laptops

[eredien]

Would you buy a laptop desk/platform that also let your cat (or, I suppose, smallish dog or other animal) sit on your lap? I ask because I seem to have acquired two laptops, one of the black electronic kind and the other of the small brown fuzzy kind, and both of them want to share my lap. Surely I cannot be the only person with this problem who would like to let both laptops share the same space, or the only person with a keyboard full of cat hair as they try to share the same space at the same time. Would people be interested in such a product?

Comments

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Huh. That actually sounds really useful -- I wouldn't buy one now, since I don't have the fuzzy kind of laptop right now and don't use the electronic kind very often, but there have definitely been times when I could have used such a thing.

The one problem I can see is that cats often prefer to be on top of the keyboard, regardless of the position of the keyboard, as they are wont to demonstrate on desks. This might be mitigated if one can keep petting the cat, but that tends to reduce one's ability to type.

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

I actually have an old crufty laptop that I keep running so the cat can sit on it.

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

I would, except I'm not sure how that would work spatially for me. If my hands are far away from my body or any higher than lap level it tends to feel uncomfortable.

[skygiants]

I would be impressed that the cat is all right sharing! My cat's reaction to my laptop tends to be 'let's see what weird and unhelpful thing we can get the screen to do by pressing as many random combinations of keys as possible. :D'