Not too many years ago laptops were seen as really clunky items that neededto be carried around in suitcase sized bags. Part of this related to the factthat early laptops were, in fact, not much smaller than the average suitcase.But it also had a lot to do with how we perceived them. They were seen as huge,fragile, expensive and thus in need of really special care andprotection.
In more recent years, however, we have grown to be a lot more relaxed aboutour laptops. They have come down in price (relative to the price of most otherthings) and are not seen as quite so fragile. Moreover, they are no longer thepreserve of the rich or of business sorts. Go onto a campus or into auniversity lecture hall these days and all you will see is laptops. So they arenow much more everyday items that get tossed into a backpack or normalmessenger bag.
Yet they do still need some protection and often a laptop sleeve can providea useful compromise between not protecting your precious computer at all andbetween carrying it in a huge padded bag.
The great advantage of a laptop sleeve (or, a notebook sleeve if you have ana really small notebook) relates to its small size. They are usually made ofjust a few millimeters of rubbery fabric such as neoprene, which is the samesubstance that diving suits are made from. They fold down pretty flat when notin use and add hardly any bulk to your notebook so you can carry it in aregular back.
A laptop sleeve will help provide protection against basic bumps andscratches. This is especially important if your laptop has a glossy finish orif you have an iPad or other tablet computer where the screen is exposed todamage.
It will also help protect it from minor spills of liquid, very short andquick downpours of rain and will also keep dust out of its sensitive workings. Inshort, if you need some extra protection for your computer but don’t want to gothe whole hog and use a big laptop bag, then consider a simple sleeve. The addedprotection it affords is usually enough for most people’s purposes. Just becareful not to drop your bag from too much of a height, or you could hear thehorrible sound of breaking glass and plastic.
Most people are tending towards using ever smaller laptop cases and sleeves to carry small laptops and notebooks without the bulk.
The Belkin Laptop Sleeve Carry Case
One of the more popular ones out there is the Belkin Sleeve. This is a then and ccompact sleeve that can be opened right up allowing you to work on your computer without having to remove it from the sleeve.
The sleeve also makes it a bit more comfortable to use your laptop when sitting in a chair or working in bed because it helps shield you from the heat tthat your laptop generates
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