If you could find a laptop car mount to fit all cars, then you would not have to worry about whether the mount you were thinking of would fit your car or not. Whether you have a Chevy SUV or a Ford Taurus it would make no difference. Since car laptop mounts are now becoming so popular, it seems commercial sense to market such a laptop desk for all cars.

It won't make much difference to you right now, but it might in a few years time when you changed your vehicle and were not keen on purchasing a new lap top stand for your new automobile. If you initially purchased a mount that fitted most cars, you would likely be able to move your desk to your new car without problems. That is only if you had a model of laptop desk that didn't need drilling to fit, however, since otherwise your old vehicle would have holes in the floor!

Individuals are starting to mount computers in their car now, because not only does it give them a means of finding information, but also the bit of one-upmanship that those with the original car phones had. Now it is the car computer that truly provides the features!

Most however are professionals, especially truck drivers, but also some van or delivery drivers that need to have two-way contact with their office in order to download, or even just view, price lists, drawings and other information required when visiting clients and places such as commercial sites. The bulk of these, however, use heavier duty truck desks that are more rugged than those used in cars.

Car computer use by individuals that use laptop mounts professionally include salespersons that need instant access to prices and stock, service personnel and virtually any professional that is mobile. Even company executives traveling to and from airports need contact with their offices. Computers can provide instant visual information and reports that other non-visual communications techniques cannot provide. Access to email and more.

In such cases the laptop car mount is crucial in providing protection to their laptops while driving in difficult terrains. When crossing a ford, or even a small river, in a vehicle it is not always possible to know what you are driving over, and your laptop could be subject to quite a severe impact at times. Your hard drive, especially, is sensitive to these blows, and has to have some protection from them. That is one of the functions of a laptop mount, normally associated with off-road vehicles.

Regardless, this is a function that all computer mounting systems should have, irrespective of whether the vehicle is driven off-road or on a freeway, and a universal mount should fit all makes of cars. What that refers to is the pedestal itself, and how it relates to the geometry of your car. An SUV, for example, usually has a large console between the driver and passenger that contains such accessories as a drinks holder. This has to be accessible and the laptop mounting system has to be designed so that it is. It also has to allow access to all the other accessories and controls, such as floor or console mounted stick shifts (most European cars have them), radios and heating controls that can often be towards the passenger side of the car.

It is not difficult to engineer this for any specific car, but it takes careful design to fashion the mount so as to fit all cars. Pro-Desks for example, do this with their Navigator car desk mount by designing adjustments into the pedestal and desk top to allow various heights, orientations and angles to be used for maximum visibility and accessibility from practically all cars. All that varies is the solid steel mounting plate that is specified when you order, but can be changed when you change your car.

There are lots of laptop desks to be found online, although you have to study the websites closely and make sure that what you are considering meets your needs exactly. Many do not offer separate plates and mounts, but just a single unit that bolts into the floor once the necessary bolt holes have been drilled. Try to avoid this if you can because you have make sure that you rust-proof the bare metal after drilling, and that the protection is not removed when the bolts are inserted. It only takes a small spot of bare metal to start the corrosion process as anybody that has a hood chip knows!

Car Laptop mounts are changing mobile offices, and it will not be long before this is the norm. There was a time when mobile phones were only for executives, and then they graduated to sales representatives, and now to everybody. The same will be true of instant computer access, initially through laptops, and the laptop car mount will become the essential accessory that the mobile charger and DVD player is now.