Alternatives guide
One recorded alternative to the MOFT Z: the Rain Design mStand, a fixed 150 mm aluminium riser that needs an external keyboard and never folds.
A folding sit-stand laptop desk that raises a laptop to ten inches, works as a lap desk and a riser, and folds flat to half an inch.
Full product researchThere is one recorded alternative to the MOFT Z in this catalogue, and it is the Rain Design mStand. It is also the other stand in the laptop stand category, and the two differ in how they are used rather than in how they look.
The MOFT Z is a folding sit-stand. It folds flat to 1.3 cm, half an inch, raises a laptop to 25 cm, 10 inches, and tilts through three angles. The mStand is a fixed block of machined aluminium at 150 mm that stays on the desk.
The recorded height is 25 cm, 10 inches, standing, with 12 cm at 25 degrees, 19.4 cm at 45 and 25 cm at 60. The recorded folded thickness is 1.3 cm, half an inch. The recorded material is vegan leather, fibreglass, magnets and metal sheets. The recorded weight is 960 g, 33.7 oz, and the recorded dimensions are 279 by 239 by 12.7 mm, 11 by 9.4 by 5 inches. The recorded laptop support is laptops up to 16 inches, and it also works with tablets. The recorded load capacity is up to 22 lb. The recorded adjustable value is yes, three tilt angles and a standing height, and the recorded keyboard access is that it works as a riser with an external keyboard. Folds flat and raises the laptop to standing height are in the recorded feature list.
The recorded height is 150 mm, 5.9 inches. The recorded material is aluminium, with aluminium body in the recorded feature list. The recorded keyboard access is that it requires an external keyboard. The recorded adjustable value is no. The recorded width and depth are 253 by 190 mm, 10 by 7.5 inches. The recorded weight is 1.46 kg, 3 pounds. The recorded laptop support is that it fits all MacBooks and most notebooks. Its recorded audience is users who use an external keyboard and want a stable fixed-height stand.
Three recorded values carry almost the whole decision.
The first is keyboard access. The mStand requires an external keyboard. The MOFT Z works as a riser with an external keyboard and is recorded as a lap desk in its description, so it also has positions where the machine's own keyboard is in reach.
The second is adjustment. The mStand records adjustable as no and a single height of 150 mm. The MOFT Z records three tilt angles and a standing height, with recorded heights of 12 cm, 19.4 cm and 25 cm.
The third is what happens when you leave. The MOFT Z records a folded thickness of 1.3 cm and a weight of 960 g. The mStand records 1.46 kg and no folded thickness, because it does not fold.
Everything else the record holds for the two is close to parallel. Both raise a laptop off the desk, both take a laptop rather than a tablet as the main use, and the mStand records a slightly smaller footprint at 253 by 190 mm against the MOFT Z's 279 by 239 by 12.7 mm.
No price is recorded for either stand, no stability or wobble measurement is recorded for either, and no retention force is recorded for the magnets in the MOFT Z. The catalogue holds no compatibility statement beyond the size and load figures, and no sense of how either surface feels under a keyboard.
Methodology
How the products below were evaluated and chosen.
What decides between them
Whether you still type on the laptop keyboard, whether the height has to change, and whether the stand travels with you. Those three recorded values separate the two stands, and every other recorded specification is either close to parallel or absent on one side.
Differences
The differences that change the buying decision.
The Rain Design mStand: a fixed aluminium riser
The mStand records a height of 150 mm, 5.9 inches, aluminium as its material and aluminium body in its recorded feature list. It records adjustable as no, keyboard access as requiring an external keyboard, a width and depth of 253 by 190 mm, a weight of 1.46 kg, 3 pounds, and laptop support as fitting all MacBooks and most notebooks.
The MOFT Z: a folding sit-stand that moves
The MOFT Z records a height of 25 cm, 10 inches, standing, with 12 cm at 25 degrees, 19.4 cm at 45 and 25 cm at 60, and adjustable as yes, three tilt angles and a standing height. It records a folded thickness of 1.3 cm, half an inch, a weight of 960 g, 33.7 oz, and keyboard access as working as a riser with an external keyboard.
Products
Why it is here: The subject of this page. Its recorded folded thickness of 1.3 cm, three tilt angles from 12 cm to 25 cm and 960 g weight are what the alternative is measured against.
Height: 25 cm, 10 inches, standing. 12 cm at 25 degrees, 19.4 cm at 45 and 25 cm at 60
Why it is here: The only other stand in the catalogue, so the only recorded alternative. It records a fixed 150 mm aluminium block at 1.46 kg that requires an external keyboard and never changes height.
Height: 150 mm, 5.9 inches
Notes
What the record does not settle
No price is recorded for either stand, no stability or wobble measurement is recorded for either, and no retention force is recorded for the magnets in the MOFT Z. The catalogue holds no compatibility statement beyond the size and load figures.FAQ
The Rain Design mStand. It is the only other stand in this category, and it records a fixed height of 150 mm in aluminium against the MOFT Z's three tilt angles and 1.3 cm folded thickness.
Source:Rain Design mStand page
Yes. The recorded keyboard access is that it requires an external keyboard, and the recorded adjustable value is no, so there is no lower position in which the laptop keyboard stays in reach.
Source:Rain Design mStand page
Only in the raised position. The recorded keyboard access is that it works as a riser with an external keyboard, while its recorded description also names a lap desk among the arrangements.
Source:Rain Design mStand page
The MOFT Z records 960 g, 33.7 oz, and the mStand records 1.46 kg, 3 pounds, so the folding stand is 500 g lighter. The fixed block also records no folded thickness, because it does not fold.
Source:Rain Design mStand page
Two. The MOFT Z and the Rain Design mStand are the only stands recorded, and the mStand is therefore the only recorded alternative to the MOFT Z.
Source:Rain Design official site
The MOFT Z. Its recorded height is 25 cm, 10 inches, standing, and it records three tilt angles with a standing height, while the mStand records one fixed height of 150 mm and adjustable as no.
Source:Rain Design mStand page
Keep researching
The MOFT Z folds flat to 1.3 cm, raises a laptop to 25 cm through three tilt angles and weighs 960 g. What the record covers, and what it does not.
On the record, the MOFT Z is the more portable of the two stands: it folds flat to 1.3 cm and weighs 960 g, where the mStand is 1.46 kg.
