A person who was just born is really disappointed with the world. What should we do?
These could be situations in real life when something like that would happen. Like when you carry it in a soft bag and there is some pressure from another things in a bag or some external happening, like entering the subway in a crowd somebody happens to lean on your bag. Many situations come to my mind for that and this is the reason for my why I only accept to buy myself a notebook that is enough solid chassis.
But then portability and lightness of the machine is kinda meaningless, isn't it if you really have to be extra careful when carry it outside the home.
I put mine in a case when moving from place to place. Seems to be sufficient to keep the MBA safe. I don’t think I would want to carry around any notebook without a case when moving about. I also have a messenger bag that I put the MBA case into for commuting to work and back. This doesn’t seem like rocket surgery.
Sure, as long as you can make sure no pressure happen during that. I guess using old style businessman hard briefcase would solve that problem.
The case is padded and reasonably thick. I can stuff the messenger bag and not worry about it. (Though I don’t usually stuff anything much in the messenger bag because I don’t want any extra weight. Which is why I got the M2 MacBook Air.)
But as long as bag has soft sides there is a risk. Probably the first sign of that is keyboard imprint on the screen or small cracks.
ok. lets agree to differ. I find some one crushing the lid of their newly bought MacBook like that silly.
No risk here. Center pocket, which is really narrow - probably too narrow to see in this photo - is well padded. I've carried a laptop in it for 5 years now and have never had a problem.
To me that kind of bag is exactly accident waiting to happen type of thing. It does not take much that bag gets compressed or hit too hard. Just like in some crowded space someone happen to lean on you and bag is between.
You mean those soft sleeves with zipper? I don’t see what good that would do in case like this.
You probably can't tell from the photos, but you're quite mistaken about the briefcase. It is made of super thick and stiff bridle leather. It weighs well over 5 lbs. The center pocket is very thin, a laptop slips in there extremely snugly, and there's no way for it to be compressed. Even though it's not a hard-sided case, it has great structural rigidity. I designed it myself, along with the craftsman who built it, and all of those things were taken into consideration.
To me it looks exactly like what I would not consider safe. Center pocket has already uneven ”ballooning” in the center of the sides, just as if there was bowling ball in the bag (figuratively speaking). Now just slight compression from some external happening and your laptop get strong compression in the middle. Perfect way to get keyboard imprints or cracks on the screen, and or bent chassis.
Definitely it has to be tied inside that type of case to prevent it from moving around. Bubble wrap it if nothing else seem possible in particular briefcase.
I'll stake my five years' use of the case against your opinion every day of the week.
