New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I just ordered one from here: http://www.grovemade.com/

Those are pretty. $160 is more than I want to spend though. And I'm allergic to wool.

I just have a dmaryc

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thanks iPhone!

What I meant was I just have a Smart Cover. I think it's pretty slick. My bag is a Timbuk2 laptop messenger that I got five years ago that fits a 15" MBP but I don't really transport my laptop around much in its old age. Bags are the best; apart from Timbuk2 here are some sweet bag companies some of which make some iPad-sized things:

http://www.chromebagsstore.com/
http://trashmessengerbags.com/
http://courierbags.com/

Someone should really start a bag thread if there isn't one.

please do, I can post all my ridiculous bags I own

It is seriously shameful, I got addicted to buying a few things in person and online a few years ago and realized that I had a shitload of bags and shoes. /wronggenderstereotype

there is a messenger bag thread. i think "laptop bags" are kind of silly in this era of small laptops with good build quality. obv they make sense if you're still rocking a plastic 16" acer or something.

a friend who had his laptop on him the other night was explaining that he liked some brands but they didn't have built-in laptop pouches. I had one with said pouch years ago and I think they're actually a liability if you're going to ever use the bag without a laptop in it

that said, you can get a 13" macbook into a really small bag, apparently

I have the smart cover for the ipad but would love a sleeve or something that isn't a piece of crap. Or a small bag that I could carry alone or throw in a bigger bag as needed. But throwing it in the bags I have now is bad as it has no protection at all from whatever other shit I'm carrying around.

are you one of those people that is worried about the back of their iPad getting scratched?

yeah really I just want a good bag into which I can throw a laptop iPad + book & hop on domestic flights & out & about town w/o feeling like a Sherpa.

also want backpack rather than messenger bag b/c I don't really get messenger bags; don't they always feel like they're gonna fall off

also detest how as you "mature" in my profession you seem to advance to briefcases b/c you hold those in your hand & to me that defeats the main purpose of bags, which is to let me keep my hands free

backpacks look weird if you're wearing a suit jacket is the idea there, i think. like you look like an intern at kpmg or something. this probably doesn't really apply to you.

keep my macbook air and papers in a tote bag tbh

I have this sleeve. The smart cover can fit in there, but it's a tight fit with it on. Really impressed with it so far:
http://goincase.com/products/detail/maki-sleeve-cl57994

i have one of these for air travel tho http://www.baileyworks.com/professional/citizen-pack/options/#

I do not wear suit jackets regularly

actually the mathematicians I hang with regularly rock the backpack & jacket look, esp. in Europe

tote bag would be ok except then it's hanging awkwardly on one shoulder & I just don't want to think about it, balancing it just right on my stately shoulders

I was in the Chrome bag store in Chicago, while already wearing one of the smaller Chrome bags, and I was way tempted to get a larger rolltop

But then, what would I do, put my current bag inside the rolltop to take it back?

i think it looks pretty bad, but if you're going to go jacket+backpack, academia is definitely the place where it's the least bad

Backpacks 4 ever.

shoulda said "rock" the look b/c yeah it's pretty bad

I avoid it by skipping the jacket except on interviews [sunglasses.jpg]

I have this for my iPad and love it

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PRHNHO/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00

just get one of these imo euler http://www.packbarefoot.com/

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I have a regular backpack, I carry around my macbook air in a padded mailing envelope -_-

are you one of those people that is worried about the back of their iPad getting scratched?

Nah, I just have a habit of throwing metal things in with glass things and not thinking. Scratched the crap out of my last phone with my keys, and the case of my laptop with a the bottlecap on a beer.

my ipad slips between text books, doing well so far

Seriously considering an 11" Air, trying to convince a US Apple Store to apply the Canadian education discount (start school in Canada in Sept but want the Air now....) They're telling me to just pretend I'm at a US school when I order from the education store. Worrying this will somehow backfire down the line.

Any thoughts on good cheap (non-Apple) displays to complement the Air, or is that a separate thread?

The good Dells are really good. Unfortunately there's a lot of deeply shit Dells too, and I'm not up-to-date on which are which. The 30" is a stunner, though.

look into ordering your air directly from amazon, it might come out to be the same as ordering a MBA from an apple store since you have to pay tax in the latter scenario

the secret to the education discount is that they don't care as long as you buy shit from them

mh - I really like that Maki sleeve from incase. Looks perfect.

xp thanks dayo, will look into amazon. How come people don't just order stuff from the education store and get the discount all the time? There seem to be no controls whatsoever.

shhh

ha my aunt (from the UK) was visiting and i bought her a laptop at the apple store. she picked one out, my mom waved me over and said to the salesperson "this is my son, he gets an educational discount, can we just go ahead and get this computer with it, ps he is planning on getting a new computer of his own in a couple weeks," "it's true, i am planning on getting my own computer soon, this computer i purchase with my educational discount is not for my own use, it's for that lady's, the one who just picked it out." apple rep: "lol i don't give a fuck let's party"

basically late great otm: doe getting the edu discount mean you'll buy an expensive computer? yes? ok here u go

Really? Oh sod it then, I'll just order it from the Apple store. It won't, I dunno, invalidate AppleCare down the line or something? No-one will come and take it away in the dead of night?

markers will rappel into your bedroom in the dead of the night

gbx did you do lines of coke off an iPad with Retina Display

Only way to roll

They're more fierce about the education discount in the UK, but it comes w/a three-year warranty so I can see why

There's a "company discount" for me but it's less than the education one. I guess it's called the "Employee Purchase Program" but it's pretty marginal

I wish apple online would ship to PO boxes - I could open a PO box in delaware and buy everything tax free

ljubljana you're only allowed to use the discount once every two years

Thanks, I didn't know that. Still planning on pressing ahead, just procrastinating over spec now. Thinking I'll upgrade the RAM to 8GB but unsure about the flash - will go for the 128 model but can't decide whether I'll regret it in 4 years or so if I don't get the 256.

the price premium to upgrade to 256 is not worth it - just get an external, imo

ljubljana you're only allowed to use the discount once every two years

not true ime. I did actually buy an iMac a couple weeks after my aunt got a laptop.

Price-check MacMall vs. EDU discount - you can customize through them and sometimes the savings on sales tax comes out even better than the EDU discount.

i cant imagine rockin a laptop with only 128gb internal hard drive, it would be like a step back to 2004

sometimes you need to take a step back to move forward

dayotm

MacMall sadly costlier. I might see if the store will order it in for me with the edu discount and then sell it to me. I'm such a wimp. I fear that markers visit (forums talk about 'audits').

gbx - i think you can only individually buy one of each product every two years if you do it in the online store

in person i'm not sure how it works, maybe they just vouch for you?