I'm on my 3rd Apex... love them. YOU can get the mic boom attachment for it and as far as a place for your laptop, you can always get a piece of plexiglas, or wood and make a shelf out of the top tier and place it there. I did that for one set up, where I used a piece of dark smoked plexiglas on a tier and it made a little shelf, I think for a tabletop unit of some kind.... been years..... mind tends to go..... and ... wait.... what was I saying......?

jeff