If you use a laptop as an actual laptop (i.e. in your lap!) often at all and you don’t have a lapinator, you are missing out.  Or you are getting a super hot lap and aren’t as comfortable as I am when I use the laptop.  They come in a few different sizes, I got one big enough for my 17″ dell widescreen and it rocks.  There are little pads on the underside that sit on your legs and feel much more comfy than the laptop.  It’s also good for the laptop because you put these little nubs on it that the laptop sits on and elevates it to allow air to flow through and cool it. 

I got the mouse attachment as well, but it wasn’t so great – it was solid black which doesn’t work so well with optical mice and it sits on a slant so the mouse has a tendency to slide right off.  They added some little rails to put on it to keep the mouse from sliding down, but since I needed to put something else on the pad to make the optical mouse actually track, the rails were useless. 

I can’t remember how I found the lapinator and I distinctly remember thinking “what a stupid name, no way this thing is decent”, but I was wrong.  Can’t judge a product by its name, I guess, but the company should strongly consider some better marketing and/or a product name change.  They should team up with somebody like Dell and offer them with new puters. 

Bottom line: if you use a laptop on your lap often, pick up a lapinator and you won’t regret it.