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How To Travel With LCD Gaming Screen?

Posted by timothy on from the get-the-kind-that-folds-and-has-a-cpu dept.

johnpagenola asks: "My 17 year old son will start traveling this Fall to fencing tournaments, but he needs his gaming fix over the weekend. How best to travel with an LCD screen to protect it from damage? Is there a way to put together a storage device for LCD with speakers, SFF system unit, keyboard and mouse?" Other than "buy a laptop," can anyone suggest some travel-proofing tips for such a set-up?

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  1. How about a pelican case? by kenthorvath · · Score: 5, Informative

    Buy a pelican case and carve out some nice foam indentations for the monitor, keyboard, etc. It's an air tight, waterproof seal with all the fixings.

  2. Pelican by HRbnjR · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use a Pelican Case when I ship my stuff. They are fantastic.

  3. CaseAce by IvyMike · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you don't need the protection (and weight) fo a hardtop case, you should check out the variety of computer carrying equipment at CaseAce. I haven't used their new LCD harness, but the regular old CRT carrying harness has been a great investment. Turns something that's awkward into something easy to carry.

  4. Willdow Design by Zoid · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.willowdesign.com/

    They have a large number of monitor and LCD display cases. They also have a specific line for the Apple Cinema Displays as well.

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  5. other ideas by adolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    Other people mention Pelican, but that company appears to be rather half-assed about the way they make road cases - they seem to be a -lot- more interested in selling plastic flashlights. Strange.

    Try instead SKB. I've been using their gear for years, with never a problem. Well-made, water-tight, light-weight, and (optionally) ATA-rated.

    More serious companies include such names as Starcase and Anvil. These are heavier, and generally made out of fiberglass-laminated plywood with aluminum extrusions holding the joints together. They don't mind being loaded up with equipment and dropped off of a truck much at all - something not easily said about any plastic case. Both Starcase and Anvil will gladly build a custom box for whatever it is that needs moved, which isn't so easy with plastic.

    Or, build your own. TCH sells all manner of hardware and materials for building serious road cases and racks. They've got extrusions, fiberglass/plywood laminates, and all manner of hasps, clasps, latches, and hinges, brackets, doohickeys, hoosiwatsits, and other very important widgets for case-building.

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  6. Re:Not to be a troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    There are definitely better ways to spend down-time:

    ...Says the guy who is spending is saturday afternoon reading slashdot....

  7. Re:i completely agree by guttentag · · Score: 4, Insightful
    These days, if the kid doesn't bring his gaming system he won't be able to socialize because everyone else will be be playing Unreal Tournament between fencing tournament matches. They wouldn't know how to socialize without the proper hardware interface.

    Don't you feel old?

  8. OT: Slashdot bitching by Sancho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Geez, you guys keep telling this guy how to run his (and his son's) life rather than giving constructive criticism to the question at hand. Do you think he hasn't thought about his son's gaming "addiction"? He came here with a question and all you can do is tell him how to raise his son. You have no idea how their family is set up. Perhaps his son is only allowed to play games on the weekends when he doesn't have to think about school? Rather than asking him to make the choice between fencing and gaming, his father could be trying to work out a compromise. You don't know the situation, so how dare you pretend you know what's best?