http://mysteryranch.com/, founded by dana gleason of dana designs (well-known backpacking brand), offers a laptop sleeve called the Office Box. they just redesigned their site and it appears not all their products are yet listed, but here are some notes about it from an email conversation i had with them about powerbook compatibility.
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On the Foam size, It is a quarter inch structured closed cell foam (trocellinling) backed with plastic sides. While this may seem to thin its more how we use it. The way the Office Box suspends the laptop means if dropped the structure of the Box takes all the force. In other words a straight foam case (even thick foam) gets most of the structure comes from the laptop. And as you found out dropped the wrong way the case means nothing. With the Office Box most of the force is taken by the Plastic sides and structure of the outer foam sleeve leaving the inner sleeve with the laptop untouched.
Our Designer made the Office Box after destroying a laptop with it in his pack while travailing a few years ago (he is great at breaking things). He has not yet managed to break his current laptop in the Office box.
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http://mysteryranch.com/, founded by dana gleason of dana designs (well-known backpacking brand), offers a laptop sleeve called the Office Box. they just redesigned their site and it appears not all their products are yet listed, but here are some notes about it from an email conversation i had with them about powerbook compatibility.
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On the Foam size, It is a quarter inch structured closed cell foam
(trocellinling) backed with plastic sides. While this may seem to thin its more how we use it. The way the Office Box suspends the laptop means if dropped the structure of the Box takes all the force. In other words a straight foam case (even thick foam) gets most of the structure comes from the laptop. And as you found out dropped the wrong way the case means nothing. With the Office Box most of the force is taken by the Plastic sides and structure of the outer foam sleeve leaving the inner sleeve with
the laptop untouched.
Our Designer made the Office Box after destroying a laptop with it in his pack while travailing a few years ago (he is great at breaking things). He has not yet managed to break his current laptop in the Office box.
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