TechStyle: Dressing up your Apple
Filed under: Accessories
We've covered all sorts of accessories for our tech-ish lifestyles, and we've cetainly given love to those things that help us stylishly carry our laptops. However, if you're a MacBook carrying Apple lover, then you might not want to hide your baby in a bag. Case-Mate makes these cool little things called Handle-It that attach to either a MacBook or a PowerBook, allowing you to carry just your laptop and show off the sleekness of the machine of itself. The Handle-It also "doubles as a passive heat sink with fins, promoting better airflow," and allowing "your laptop to run cooler, maximizing it's performance." When you're not carrying your laptop around, the handle converts into a stand. When the laptop sits on the desktop, the Handle-It folds under and converts into an ergonomic stand.
Case-Mate also has other leather accessories for laptops, PDAs, and iPods.
Back when I was hauling my laptop from city to city, I did what probably would have given my company's IT director the equivalent of a network coronary - I would literally throw my laptop into an oversized purse, completely unprotected. I just didn't want to carry those horribly plain black nylon laptop bags that were also just begging to be mixed up with another person's. 
