Aluminum laptop stand arrived today. It fits between the rear feet just right. The bottom feet rest right on the aluminum frame. The rubber grips on the stand keep the M100 from moving. It puts the keyboard at a comfortable typing angle. Well, as comfortable as an M100 can get anyway. A little bit taller would probably be perfect.
So, maybe you guys will find this interesting or at least amusing hearing a perspective from a newbie to the M100: I can’t imagine myself ever typing a program out on this thing! You can either get the viewing angle just right or the typing angle just right, but so far I have been unable to achieve both. The original purpose of this thing was for journalists to type up their articles. I bet that was just painful. 😊 I also noticed that the LCD is inset pretty far under the plastic lens and what that means is that the angle of the room lighting is important because it casts black shadows on the LCD. Almost impossible to get rid of the shadows except with a direct-on lamp. I imagine I will be doing all my development like most sane people these days: on the PC and testing in an emulator before running it on the hardware. Obviously back in its day, that was not an option, so kudos to those programmers that did it on the actual hardware. Makes me wonder why kind of crazy aftermarket products there must have been to try to solve the lighting issue? Things like those clip on lamps for the Gameboy? Lol Scott M. From: C. Magaret Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [M100] Replacement rubber feet / Peg Leggs These are interesting options, and I'm curious to hear how your experiment with the aluminum laptop stand works out. Re: the adhesive stands you also mentioned, once they're applied to an M100, does the M100 still fit in its original slipcase? Cheers, CAM > On Dec 29, 2020, at 12:37, Scott McDonnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > These stands are great. My only issue is that you need to stick one of them > to the battery door. I guess that really isn’t a problem, though. I like the > height and they tilt the M100 just a little bit even when folded. I like them > because they will stay with the computer and I don’t have to try to keep > track of them. Satisfied. > > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZJ3CYB3 > > I have not received this yet to try out. > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DM1S3SC > > I have a feeling that this is going to interfere with the placement of the > feet and just not work out well without modifying it. But I figured I can > always use it for one of my laptops if it doesn’t work out for the M100. > > Scott M. >
