Oversized Lap Desk,wishacc Portable Bamboo Lap Desk Tray for Home Office (Fits up to 17.3” Laptop)

This bamboo desk is very durable and a great size. I use it all the time and love how I can adjust the cushion on the back to be lifted or flatter, depending on how I am sitting. The stitching is well-made, the handle is strong, and the surface is smooth. My daughter loved it so much that I bought one for her too!

I have been working from the couch the past couple months due to an injury. After realizing I couldn't go any further with a pillow as my computer support, I found this lap desktop. After reviewing several, I landed on this one. It's large enough to hold my 15 inch computer (or 16 inch). The wood block/stopper on the bottom keeps the laptop from slipping down and I'm not getting super hot with heat from the computer transferring through the materials (like on a pillow). And it's been very sturdy and not sitting lopsided or tilting like a pillow would do. The bottom cushion is sturdy enough to not lose shape, but soft enough to be comfortable. I also love the handle as it makes for an easy grab and lift if I am sitting down. All-in-all, from just using this for one day...I highly recommend.

Bought this lap desk because I wanted something simple and small for my 17" work laptop. It works exactly as I need it to and keeps the hot laptop off my legs. I can just barely use a mouse if I push my laptop all the way to one side but generally I use it when I'm reading or typing and using the mouse less. The material on the lap side is not particularly soft but it is sturdy and grabs just a little so it's not constantly sliding on your lap which is great. I use the fold out rarely but it works as designed. The only less than ideal feature is the phone slot. It isn't deep enough to hold a phone vertical unless the desk is nearly flat. This isn't a big deal for me because I have a larger laptop and I just need my phone nearby so side-ways in the pocket works fine. If you need to be viewing your phone and laptop side-by-side this may not work for you. Overall this is great for these work from home days and gives me more options on where I can work in the house.

It came on a perfect day. Feeling under the weather with an allergy attack and working from bed was exactly what I planned to do. It is SO lightweight, I actually am very surprised about that. I have a Belkin fabric lap desk I have used for 5+ years, but it always sat my laptop or tablet too high (4”) and I never felt comfortable. This is so much better, and perfect that I can adjust it from 2” to a little over 3” with the additional pillow whenever I want to. I prefer my laptop lower, but when I work on my iPad, raising it up at an angle works better for me. My phone, different than others have said, fits perfectly in the slot given (even with its silicon clear case) but I find myself putting the Apple Pencil there so it doesn’t roll off. I put my phone under the strap on the other side, so I can turn it on and check notifications/etc without having to move it. Looks like the bamboo top wipes easily, and I tend to be pretty careful with things so I can’t see myself breaking or snapping it. Although it is so light, I can see how it might be susceptible to harsh treatment (like dropping on hard floor). All in all, a great desk for when I feel like working from bed but don’t want to sacrifice efficiency.

This type of product isn't a necessity, but more of a quality of life purchase. I don't think everyone needs something like this, but here's some thoughts I can share if you're thinking about this type of product. I've bought two of this specific lap desk. Before I bought the first one, I had a cheap plastic lap desk with beanbag padding. A year of having it, the padding on the bottom was flat in places and it was impossible to keep it well distributed. It had a lip to hold the laptop edge, but macbooks slid over it's curved edges sometimes at odd angles. Overall I got my use out of that and enjoyed using it at first when it was fresh and I could work from any room in the house. I work from home via internet. So I bought this bamboo lap desk to replace that old beat up one in December of 2019. I moved the following February and lost my first one and bought a second one because I liked it. The bamboo surface is a bit roughed out. It's not smooth, but it's not scratchy. It's been sanded to some degree. The friction from the roughness helps a lot with keeping laptops still. I liked this compared to my first lap desk which had a slippery top. It was fine for laptops with rubber feet, but not macbooks. The ledge thing that prevents the laptop from sliding in towards you is great on this. It's got squared edges, so the laptop can't wedge up and slide forward. The bottom is foam. It's comfortable. I don't know what the foam situation looks like on the inside, I'll provide an update next year. The bottom pull out part makes this very easy to use while sitting on a floor. It adds stability when sitting with crossed legs for example. It's just a flap with foam in it. One thing I don't like is that the foam under the tablet/pencil holder is hallowed out. Seems like they might bind the foam to the bamboo in manufacturing before they cut out the hole for the plastic insert. Instead of just cutting the bamboo the foam under it is cut. This does affect front right hand foam's structural integrity. I imagine if there's any problems, that area would be the first place problems arise. Overall, this was a good purchase in my opinion. It just depends on if you would actually use it.

The padding is firm and comfortable, and the fold-out riser to put the surface on your lap at an angle works much better than I thought it would. When folded out it is held in place by two elastic bands slipped over buttons, very useful design. I also like that it has a carrying strap, and the elastic band across the upper corner is useful for keeping papers and small items in place. The one problem this lap-desk has is a design flaw for the built-in phone and stylus stands. They are not angled back and only about a centimeter deep. Combined, this means that a phone or tablet placed in the slot tends to flop forward instead of standing up at an angle where it can be viewed. There is a round hole to place your stylus in also, like an inkwell, but it is no deeper and cannot hold a stylus upright at all well. These aren't really problems, and deeper wells would be problematic for the padding, but an angled slot would have been an improvement.

This thing is really well made. I've been using this lap desk for my computer every day, 8+ hours a day, for almost 3 years now, and it feel like it's in just as good shape as the day I received it. There's a little wall thing at the front of the desk that keeps things from sliding off -- I do wish it were not quite as tall, just measured it, it's about 5/8" tall, which doesn't sound like much but my computer is much much thinner than that so it gets in the way of my wrists sometimes. The wall thing also feels very sturdy and well-made, it is just not going anywhere. I like that the cushion underneath has a well-defined shape, so it's easy to get the whole thing to be level if it's on a level surface, or you can flip out the middle bit to give the whole thing a slope I guess but I haven't ever really used it that way.

16 months after purchase, the laminated bamboo surface of WISHACC lap desk developed a concave warped (cupped) surface and was not useful as a drafting base especially drawing straight lines in all directions. It does not retain its flat surface and is not durable.