The stand Besht essentially of three parts, on the one hand, the two aluminum supports which are carrying the entire construction and constructed as a cantilever and the other a rail made of clear hard plastic that holds the two supports in place, reinforces and almost all of the weight takes on and vertical passes down
The stand is relatively heavy and therefore does not slip so easily, he also stands on rubber feet. The design is very delicate and makes the MacBook almost hovering, it absorbs light, but I did not feel as disturbing. Are located on the top two gray rubber strips around the laptop to provide security against slipping, they are glued. Front securing two clamps of transparent plastic in addition, this I find, by design, but rather more disturbing, you see them in the pictures also do not and are apparently only a product update. They can also leave off, they only offer additional security.
The laptop is very safe design and come at any point only with rubber or transparent hard plastic in contact.
The build quality is really excellent, the metal used corresponds to the appearance of exactly the unibody casing of Apple, thanks to the generous dimensioning it also occurs in the background but not particularly adapts to the laptop. It's sharp, but trimmed as a unibody design. The light gray rubber parts used to make a very high-quality impression, but they are only glued, but they keep very well at any point and I could make no deficiencies. The plastic is transparent and shiny rounded.
By design, the stand fits very well to the unibody design that he is more introverted, but not hiding under the laptop but is clearly demonstrated. At the front you even recognize a piece of the rubber strip, which really does not have to hide, the whole structure is so visible. The free-swinging style reminiscent of Bauhaus classics from the industrial design as the classical free-swinging chairs by Mart Stam and Marcel Breuer. It thus builds very well at Jonathan Ives unibody design concept and is an absolutely worthy foundation for the MacBook.
Only the hard plastic bar I do not find the optimal solution and falls in my opinion a bit out of the ordinary. She remembers her standing with the sharp-edged metal parts very contrasting rounded shape to the plastic elements of previous iMacs, especially on the old Apple keyboard. It's a matter of taste, I was not a big fan of the old Apple designs with transparent plastic parts, the mix of genres, but I find particularly disturbing. Consequently, one would have the metal construction easy to pull through and to make a single piece of aluminum. Of course, this would have a huge economic disadvantage is because the metal parts can be so much cheaper just turn out a flat steel and they can also disassemble and ship much compressed and camps.
You can tell just a bit that you wanted to have the two free-swinging parts actually, but in this case even had a connecting element ago. The clear solution is a semi-solution in my eyes, one sees indeed still very strong. At least I would have then made of high-gloss black plastic, what the Mac screen (the border etc.) would also fit again. But that would be just very daring and would not see on every desk good, my desk is just also in black stained wood)
And in the end it is after all a piece of Griffin Design, indeed very happy using this transparent plastic optics, it gives the product the special Griffin character, it is not a true child of the house of Apple. As I said, this is absolutely a matter of opinion and only my opinion, I think the stand still very nice and the best choice out there there. And the design has the bar up even advantages, it is high-quality and the parts can be almost completely slide into each other. I spend just a little bit my style mustard)
Conclusion:
Excellent processing -
-All Parts fit seamlessly into each other, building very simple (just stuck together)
- Construction is very stable and secure
- That design adapts perfectly to the MacBook on and yet has its own character which it adds
- Priced perfectly adequate, I find it even more still low
For me the best stand for my MacBook :)
