I'm convinced that calling portable computers laptops is a marketing ploy, since the last place you want to put one of these nuclear fusion engines is anywhere on your body. Some of them run hot enough to double as a shop heater in a pinch. So, when you have one of these electric heaters and no desk or table available what do you do? Well you head down to the shop of course and create a laptop desk!
Step one was to lay out some bits and bobs I had in the scrap bin. A few pieces of cedar fencing and a 12" wide piece of pine should work.
The only real trick in this project was ripping the sides on an angle without going to Lee Valley for an expensive adjustable jig. I screwed some spacers that would give me the slope I wanted to one corner of the boards.
Then I ran the desk's sides along the table saw fence which gave a nice gentle angle.
Two dados and some glue later:
Here we have one space heater on a laptop desk:
