Always Use Protection

Posted by stephen on Tuesday, 20th June, 2006 @ 01:53

Since my original 12" PowerBook I've always liked to know my laptops are safe. At first I did this with a hideous and inconvenient generic laptop bag, then later I discover the exactly fitting sleeves that I call laptop condoms, or, to name an actual brand, second skins (sounds very condom like to me).

This let me ditch the nasty laptop bag and instead seal my laptop away in it's snug little sleeve and throw it into my rucksack. My first was bought for me by the lovely Matt for Christmas and saw me through both my 12" PowerBooks and continues to protect the second of those.

But sadly, my new MacBook adds an extra inch (which I now consider a vital extra inch, like a proper little gay boy) and was just too big for a 12" sleeve. And a 14" sleeve for the original iBook wasn't really suitable either, little Falcor would be slip around like nobody's business in such a thing. Being so new to market at the time of purchase, and also being an unusual form factor for a laptop, new sleeve designs were not forthcoming.

Then I discovered Wrappers, a lovely little British company (see, I am patriotic, despite not having massive St George's flags splayed everywhere at present). Within two weeks of the MacBook being announced they were in production of sleeves! And not only that, they are sleeves that you can customise with 15 characters that'll be hand sewn on the side. Not only that, but they are actually cheaper than the majority of sleeves I've seen at just £17.99.

And I loved both the sleeve and the service so much I just had to write them an email telling them. And they loved the email so much, they put it on their website! (see Customise your MacBook sleeve on the homepage).

So, if you're in the market for a condom for your MacBook, or indeed you iPod, I definitely recommend them.