MacRumors Giveaway: Win a MacBook Pro-Compatible Signature Backpack and Luggage From Vessel

[involuntarheely]

At the risk of derailing this thread early: is synthetic leather really that much friendlier to animals than actual leather?

I get the "skinning an animal doesn't sound good for the animal" argument, and if this was baby seal skin I'd probably avoid it, but in a world of carnivores isn't leather part of the "use the whole animal" ethic?
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Looks like we were typing at the same time...

my family works on leather, and while I dont know the full story about environmental impact of synthetic materials that look like leather vs leather, I do know that real leather lasts a much longer time, and looks better when worn out.
synthetic leather just falls apart after a while.

so, there's a point to be made that even if real leather was more environmentally unfriendly (which I don't even know if that's true), every leather piece can be used for longer periods of time.
I have a leather backpack that I've used for 5 years and looks certainly different from day 1, but still looks great.

 

[justperry]

I think it looks really nice, especially in white. Except (regardless of my above joke) the casters, which look plasticy and cheap and super ugly. But also not £700.

Maybe they look better in real life, I prefer sporty ones, most of them are also much cheaper.
It's priced too high for synthetic leather.

Ugly luggage

Nope, wrong..

Who’s going anywhere at the moment?!

I know i know, you're not really being serious here(?!), thing is not all countries are closed, plenty of people still travel, and then this...what is the definition of travelling...commuting from and to your job is in a way travelling too.

 

[doctor-don]

Since Yahoo does not refresh the MacRumors articles on my home page, I have to search through Giveaway. THEN, the giveaway articles are in some more or less random order which makes it tedious to locate the current giveaway.
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Vessel's animal friendly synthetic leather is a solid alternative to natural leather with a soft, smooth touch and water resistance, which is useful in bad weather. Vessel says that its leather holds up well over time because the structure is similar to genuine leather.

Is this 'synthetic leather' polyurethane leather?
Or is it the leather ground up and mixed with synthetic material in a slurry synthetic leather that is used to manufacture furniture that does not carry the name full grain leather?

 

[eco7777]

And how do you enter the giveaway?

 

[mazz0]

It's priced too high for synthetic leather.

I’ve no idea how much it costs to make, but *generally* I’m not in favour of faking materials, I prefer honest design as Jonny Ive might say, plastic that looks like plastic (mmmmm, iPhone 5C! ❤) but for some reason I can’t explain I just kinda like that one in white.

 

[spicy_tonkotsu]

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[Hieveryone]

Too clean. Would prefer something a little more rough, something more manly/rugged

This looks like one of those dudes who would wear white coat, pointy shoes, hair slick back, about to eat caviar with his boys at the local lounge

Not my style

 

[Precursor]

And it's compatible with MacBook Pro? WHOA!

 

[cmaier]

I wonder how many animals are harmed by pollution caused by the manufacturing of “animal friendly” synthetic leather.

None.

 

[andreiru]

Since this is a US only ad it would be good to have a script for it that would only show it to those with US ip addresses... otherwise I‘m drooling over the giveaways every time.

 

[deep diver]

Since Yahoo does not refresh the MacRumors articles on my home page, I have to search through Giveaway. THEN, the giveaway articles are in some more or less random order which makes it tedious to locate the current giveaway.

Until a couple of weeks ago I could search "giveaway" from the MR front page and get a list of all of the contests in chronological order (most recent first). Now, if I run the search on the forums page I get the most recent first. That other way was better.

 

[honestlyemerson]

Since so many people think these are ugly, I entered and subbed, and will happily accept one of these. I think the design and approach is great.