The Roost's joints have tighter tolerances and the legs don't feel nearly as shaky as the Nextstand even though the Roost legs are more slender.

While the Nextstand is significantly cheaper, the Roost packs down into a noticeably smaller size, which is helpful when your "one bag travel" backpack gets filled with a tea making kit you carry around with you for some unfathomable reason

Additionally, the Roost stand adjusts to grip your laptop with springs, while the Nextstand has little shims you insert and possibly lose on a night out in Bali

Compared to the NextStand (cheaper knockoff) it is much more compact, which is what I wanted when transporting back and forth from the office

Since I both travel a lot and work on my macbook pro laptop a