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New TiBook Handle Also Sports a Stand
gsfprez writes "The fine folks at Other World Computing have teamed up with Newer Technology to release the perfect handle for your TiBook, because its also a stand: it folds underneath like the CRT iMac stand when you're parked. Previous handles were only handles, but the TiHandle actually gives you the tilt you wish you had with you all the time without the little feet popping off or overrotating."
The model in this picture also has some nice handles.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
Why handles? For such an expensive piece of equipment, I certainly wouldn't carry it around unprotected... I'd use a laptop case.
What kind of handle does your TiBook have?
- Stock (none)
- the one attached to the carrying case
- a sexy new TiHandle!
- I don't have a TiBook you insensitive clod!
- CowboyNeal handles it for me
It's for the IBM Thinkpads and it plugs into the USB port. But there's a small problem. It doesn't work so well when you pick it up. I think the computer is too heavy or something.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
Photographer (to model): Can you raise the laptop about 6"?
Model: Like this?
Photographer: Yes, Perfect!
Client: Why do you want the laptop held in such an unnatural position? She looks uncomfortable. Nobody carries a laptop like that.
Photographer: If you want to sell these damn things, we need her tits in the frame too.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Second, having purchased the above referenced handle, I can seriously advise AGAINST installing any such device that mounts and channels load through the screen hinges/hinge mounts of the PBG4. I was (fairly) lucky and only had the hinge cover plastic broken from the stress of lite usage over the period of six months. Those covers aren't cheap and are very important inasmuch as they cover the various cables that go to the TFT display. How expensive? Well, in a quick search, the best price I found was $40.00 used.
So, use any of these devices at your own risk. After having done so myself, I will never use one again.
does it bother anyone else that the entire weight of the laptop is supported by 4 screws and a hinge that's only designed to hold the weight of a rather small (and lightweight) LCD display? i can't imagine putting the stress of a freely swinging 5.4 lb laptop on 4 tiny screws is going to do wonders for the structural ingegrity of that little plastic liner that the display attaches to.
:)
on a side note, does this sound suspiciously like another well placed ad?
for better ventilation on my tibook, i use two of those free 2.5" x 4" bibles the guys in suits hand out just outside of campuses to get my laptop off the table about half an inch. they're free, too!
moox. for a new generation.
Just take the cap off of any poland springs water bottle, and stick them under the ti's feet...sha-zam! Elevation!
Damn, I should sell these for a dolla!
n
[Mimes placing laptop computer over his head] You just lift the TiBook by the handle up over your head. Keeps you nice and dry!
-- clvrmnky