Laptop Cases
September 10, 2006
Emily and I decided that with a chunk of the wedding money we received we should make a big purchase for ourselves. Well, we made a very nice purchase of a brand new Acer Laptop. It's an AMD Sempron 3200 with a very nice 15.4" screen displaying up to 1280x800 delicious pixels. Quite nice. Emily's super-happy that she now has a machine that I can't play with and tweak.
However, there's one conundrum that we've encountered. The lack of laptop cases available. It seems that unless you're willing to pay 70$ for the souped up (souped up? Is that right?) Targus laptop bag from hell then you're stuck with something huge and bulky. The caveat is that we need to find something that will have enough room for the laptop and a book. This little guy's going to campus with me.
Does anyone have any recommendations for lower-priced but still slightly stylish cases? We've looked at both Best Buy and Target and come up with two bags that don't quite fit right. The one from Best Buy won't hold anything else but the laptop (no book, or notebook or anything) and the one from Target is massive.
Yes, I have tried scanning in my textbooks - and I may finally go that route. It keeps me from having to lug around a massive bag and breaking my back - and makes me feel a little safer not having the laptop risking getting crushed by my Busines Statistics book.
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david 2006/09/11
/me cries
i want a laptop too!
sorry I don't have any input for cases :( I got mine in Germany.
Jordan T. Cox 2006/09/11
Poor David. My heart goes out to you. Though we made this decision figuring that I needed something to lug to campus, and Emily needed something that I couldn't tinker with. :) Somehow I don't think that Sara(h?) is busy using the internet tubes while you're hax0ring with your operating systems.
lisa 2006/09/11
I don't have a recomendation for a specific bag, as I just carry mine around every day in my regular backpack. And I too share your fear of crushing the laptop. My nutrition book weighs more than the laptop, and as such I can't carry them in the same bag because it feels like I'm carrying a boulder.
But, for the scanning-in of textbooks, I'd thought I'd share with you the one gadget I really, really want.
the Docu-Pen Scanner is made for Court Reporters, so that they can quickly scan in exhibits. I saw an ad in my inbox one day (I work for a court reporting firm), and I've wanted it ever since. Just think, with a $200 investment, you never have to buy another text book, because you can just go to the library and scan them in.
I get sick just thinking about how much I want it.
Jordan T. Cox 2006/09/11
Lisa! Nice to see a fellow Lifehacker!
I've seen those Docu-Pen things mentioned around work before, and they do seem quite neat. I work for a legal research company, and we often times need to scan in large quanties of court cases and legal texts from law libraries so we have looked into these before. I recall the need of an extremely steady and accurate hand being needed for these.
Do you know of anyone who actually uses one?
Jordan T. Cox 2006/09/11
Er... I assumed that you were the commenter Lisa from lifehacker! Oops! :) Glad to see someone from the 9rules community posting here then.
lisa 2006/09/12
I don't know anyone who uses them (our reporters are pretty low-tech at the moment. I still get requests to walk them through emailing files), but I'd test it out if anyone wanted to send me one.
I'm under the assumption though, if Stenograph is selling them, that they do exactly what they say they do. They make court reporting machines, and their business is making sure the reporters have the best equipment possible.
I'm thinking they probably tested it over and over to make sure it works, as exhibits are the most important think next to testimony, and screwing that up would screw the reporter.
And they usually offer money-back reassurances that things will work just the way they say it will. So if Stenograph is selling it, it's probably worth it, even though I'd probably buy somewhere else.