{"id":309,"date":"2007-12-09T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T23:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/a-pretty-nice-laptop-case"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:29","slug":"a-pretty-nice-laptop-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/a-pretty-nice-laptop-case","title":{"rendered":"A Pretty Nice Laptop Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/brenthaven.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinline\" width=\"119\" height=\"314\" \/>In the 15 or so years I&#8217;ve been using a laptop, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve ever had the perfect laptop case.  They&#8217;re either too big, too ugly, too minimalist, too weak, or too &#8220;handbaggy&#8221;.  My ideal laptop case\/bag is pretty simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made of semi-rigid ballistic nylon, similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/oakley.com\/pd\/1995\" target=\"_blank\">an Oakley case<\/a>, providing a shell-like feeling<\/li>\n<li>Small handle to hold<\/li>\n<li>Tight-fitting, without a lot of extra bulk<\/li>\n<li>An auxiliary pocket for paper, a power cord, or a few other things<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s really it.  The problem is, this case doesn&#8217;t exist.  The closest I had found was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booqbags.com\/s.nl\/it.A\/id.65\/.f\" target=\"_blank\">Booq Vyper XS2<\/a>, a spectacularly beautiful case which is hamstrung only by its baffling lack of handle and unfortunate omission of a utility pocket.  The Vyper is so nice looking that I&#8217;ve considered buying one and actually grafting my own handle and pocket onto it.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, however, I randomly found a pretty nice case that I wanted to pass along to anyone currently in the market for one: <a href=\"http:\/\/brenthaven.com\/catalog-edge-i-black.html#\" target=\"_blank\">The Brenthaven Edge<\/a>.  It&#8217;s not quite as gorgeous and compact as the Booq, but it&#8217;s semi-rigid, has an extra pocket, and comes with a handle.  It also has some pretty thick internal padding which would seem to make it quite &#8220;drop-proof&#8221;, although I&#8217;m not about to test that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s it&#8230; a quick holiday gift recommendation for you or your laptop toting loved one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 15 or so years I&#8217;ve been using a laptop, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve ever had the perfect laptop case. They&#8217;re either too big, too ugly, too minimalist, too weak, or too &#8220;handbaggy&#8221;. My ideal laptop case\/bag is pretty simple: Made of semi-rigid ballistic nylon, similar to an Oakley case, providing a shell-like feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}