Corsair Lapdog Review

Installation and Performance

The first thing you have to do with your Lapdog is take off those top covers, and thankfully all of this can be done with the included tool. The panel at the back hides the cable routing space, which you’ll need for the keyboard and mouse cables.

Then one more section below the mouse for even more cables, as well as a hidden USB hub.

With all the main panels removed, you can easily work with your cables and access the hub.

The hub is pretty self-explanatory and has two hidden USB ports; one for the keyboard and one for the mouse.

The inner panel can be removed to accommodate a larger keyboard and to ease the installation of shorter keyboards.

Our K65 dropped into place easily enough, and the cable was easily routed through to the hub. You can route the cables neater and strap them down, but it’s not always essential. Then it’s simply a case of plugging in the mouse and putting the panels back in place.

With everything back in place, it certainly looks cool and offers a really clean setup for your peripherals. Admittedly, it is also quite large and not the sort of thing everyone is going to be able to accommodate in their living room, but that’s obviously something you need to consider before you order one, rather than a fault of the design.

The keyboard sits nice and flush with the frame, although it seems a shame that there’s no benefit of a wrist rest here, as the keyboard feels pushed quite close to the front edge.

If you look closely, there is a pass-through hole at the back of the keyboard for the mouse cable, but I found it worked even better to tray the cable a bit between the panels at the back, as it helped prevent the cable slipping and acted like a cable bungee; perhaps try both solutions to see which works best for you.

Now for the good stuff. Naturally, I couldn’t really hold the Lapdog and get a good photo of it on my legs while getting the TV in shot, so here it is sitting comfortable on the arm of my couch. This is the first time I’ve been able to play my games in 4K on the big screen. Sure I have a 4K desktop monitor, but at 27″ it’s a far cry from the 49″ monitor and the 5.1 surround sound that face the two big leather couches; far more appealing that a desk, right?

While it is quite heavy, the soft padding does a fantastic job of distributing the weight of the setup and it feels very comfortable, even after a couple of hours use. It’s not just for gaming either, as I found it performed just as well for work and browsing the web. Gaming is certainly the main focus, however, and having that full keyboard and mouse setup on a comfortable and remarkably stable lap mounted unit is quite liberating. The only downside is where the hell do you put the Lapdog between games? There’s another problem too, but we’ll get to that in a moment.