Calico Designs 51200 Mobile Laptop Cart with Mouse Tray - Chrome & Black Glass Computer Stand for Office, Classroom, or Home Workspace

This is a great little cart, I like it a lot, however it did need a few modifications before I was wholly satisfied. For one thing, I would not trust the lock or whatever used for adjustment. It can definitely come unlocked with a minor bump and there goes your laptop. I knocked the little rubber thing in the lock out and slid a piece of rope through there tied to a support that is close by. this prevents the lock from lifting up which seemed to fix the problem. If you need to adjust this a lot, then good luck because it is kind of a pain, you might want to look into some other fix. The casters put the cart up a good two extra inches, I straight didn't put those on. It works fine on a carpet, if I move to a location with hardwood floors I may need to come up with another plan so as not to scratch the finish. The drink holder, essentially useless. I wouldn't trust that either, not with my laptop that close. All in all though, with that said, I am very happy with the product, it has made my life a whole lot easier. It is plenty big enough for my laptop, and the mouse thing is pretty nice (aside for the drink holder, which I am constantly dropping into. I read a lot of .pdf files, so this makes the reading easier as it is closer, not to mention the keyboard is close enough where I can type AND have a backrest. I also do a lot of GIS, and the mouse deal on the side makes it SO much easier. I would recommend this with the above caveats. The lock is the biggest issue. That thing is not right and needs to be addressed as soon as the cart is assembled.I had no problems assembling the table but either I got a lemon of a package or there are some quality control issues with regards to the pieces. The instructions to assemble this cart were fair enough. You should probably have your own adjustable wrench to put the casters onto the legs. The company included a small wrench in the package, but mine broke after a few turns.As far as parts go, the casters and the legs were my trouble point. One of the legs was not drilled properly and ruined two of casters. I tried to remove and salvage the casters but the screws snapped off during my removal attempts. Seriously, not cool. I contacted Studio Designs and after working through some automated menus, I got in touch with a live person and requested replacement parts. I asked for a new left leg and two casters, but a week later, I received two legs and one caster. I had to wait another week to get one more caster.The table's fine now. It's fairly level and mobile and feels more solid than the folding tables I worked with prior. The mouse tray underneath is a bit clever. It can slide either to the left or right, though it isn't as solid as I would like it to be so I don't trust the shallow cup section to hold my drink, expecially with rambunctious cats in the house.It is an inherently shaky proposition you ask of any piece of furniture if you require it to be lightweight, not unwieldy, moveable, yet sturdy. Given that, this unit is designed and constructed surprisingly well, and any shakiness is more of an integral moving as opposed to inherent shoddiness, like what could only be expected from such a cantilevered construction. The welds are solid, the hardware very good, and the overall impression is solid craftsmanship. The one exception is that it seems the shelf that pulls out could have been engineered a bit differently (to closer specifications anyway) so there would be less play in it when extended.The openness of the bottom area works well for my purposes. The unit is quite solid and lightweight in terms of moving it around, but the casters are a little on the chintzy side. I would have preferred to pay $10 more to have real rubber wheels with ball bearings, but this may well be the best unit, overall, that is available to the mass market. I was pleased enough to give it 5 stars, based on my expectations.But uses non-standard 1/4" screw in casters making replacement with ones appropriate to use on commercial carpet a drill-out retrofit. 5/16" screw casters are EASY to find in many sharp-looking functional styles. 1/4" are not so much.Since the look is exactly what the boss wants drilling out to 5/16 holes and JBweld'ing new casters in place would be a fine task. Sadly, the cart is so "bouncy" when he types on it it's not so useful for the intended use /= We use it at the max height but the tubing is quite thin, so not sure it's much more stable at a lower setting.Overall - following the assembly instructions was easy enough. The locking mechanism wasn't entirely intuitive at fist glance but easy enough to figure out and plenty sturdy. The bottom shelf is VERY thin and seems to exist mostly to hold the camber of the legs (they'll bow inward at the front without the shelf installed).Might be fine for your use but not so great for mine...Great product anybody that regularly wants the flexibility of setting up a laptop work station anywhere they can find a seat. The bottom structural tie between the 2 wheel sets is not the best design (mine continues to pop off). 4 strategically placed self tapping sheet metal screws easily remedies this issue. The wheels are a little rough on wood/laminate flooring. As a whole, I would buy this product again.Great table for sofa use, I use it for artwork when relaxing on the couch as well as a laptop/tablet stand for reading or browsing.Easy to assemble until you reach the trails below the main board. For one trail, none of the 2 required screws would fit, so you cannot setup that trail (the tray will fall systematically of course). So basically you get half what you paid for (the tabletop, not the tray below it). Already 90$ for a few pieces of metal was overpaid, but if it is additionally poorly designed, as seems to be the case, I'd avoid the purchase if I were you. Also consider that all the main frame built, the table oscillates, so if you were planning on using it as a laptop stand, it is definitely not ideal, it moves whenever you type!Es una mesa que luce muy bien y es fácil de mover. Tiene buen ajuste de la altura. Se tambalea un poco pero no es gran problema. Me gustó que trae una placa para apoyar los pies. El ensamble es fácil (trae todo lo necesario excepto un desarmador para los tornillos de la charola, pero eso cualquiera lo tiene en casa) la única parte que se me dificultó un poco es para poner los rieles donde va la charola. El truco es que debes presionar un poco antes de atornillar. Sin duda compraría otra.La verdad es que se ve muy elegante el acabado de cristal templado y la bandeja del rato está súper genial que te dejan algo para apoyar un vaso (yo no lo remiendo porque lo puedes empujar si querer o al menos que seas cuidadoso), al principio estaba no confiaba mucho del mecanismos de altura pero ya verdad es muy resistente. He puesto bastantes cosas como monitores LCD varias laptop de distintos tamaños y si es un plus poder modificar la altura. Lo único que tienes que tener cuidado es con los cables pero para eso cómprate un bungie para el ratón o deja suficiente cable para que no sientas que te lo jalan (lo digo porque si te gusta los ratones de cable pues si es buena inversión un bungie, sino pues usa la vieja confiable Bluetooth).Sugiero 5 cms, más de largo para depositar el telefóno o una ranura en la charola del mousse con un tope para poner el teléfono, eliminar el espacio para vaso o taza, porque al trabajar se mueve el carrito y el vaso o taza puede caerse porque no tiene profundidadSi ocupa poco espacio. No es plegable. Pero creo que cubre mis especificaciones. Lo que si es que los tornillos para poner los rieles para el soporte del pad mouse, no le quedaron los que traía. Tuve que buscar unos.It looks good in the picture but very disappointed with what showed up. Very poor quality, after assembly it was twisted so bad that only 3 wheels were on the floor and no amount of adjusting would correct the problem. The "chrome" on the frame was of very poor quality and already flaking off. If this was a $50.00 product I would expect these problems but for this cost I expect a lot better.Do not recommend