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> Using a bare laptop all day will damage your health.

Do you have any references to support this? A NY Times article on posture, littered with affiliate links, is not it.

I am using only a laptop for the majority of my almost 10y career as a web developer, without any discomfort or pain, during or after. I've tried the "ergonomic setup" in many different variations and I always ended up with some pain, most often pain in wrist and lower arm, due to repeated movements between the keyboard and mouse/trackpad. Most important improvements for my setups were a good chair that allows shoulder and arm mobility (HM Embody) and a standing desk frame for precise height adjustment when sitting. And the macbook pro seems to have the perfect position of keyboard and trackpad so that I do not cause any strain on my wrists.

But our bodies are different so there is no single best way, health damage is a bold claim without supporting literature.



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