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Jan 18, 08 - 02:12 pm Comment from: djfred

It was only a matter of time.

Jan 18, 08 - 02:14 pm Comment from: Grigori

Obvious, but still brilliant.

Cool! Sign me up!

I like it. It will give those using it attention, which is obviously what they are looking for.

I hope the latch stays closed.

Jan 18, 08 - 02:22 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Cute.
Nice way to hide a laptop.

I can see angry blog comments now about Apple selling a $30 envelope.

Jan 18, 08 - 02:35 pm Comment from: iWill

Too cool! Lo-Tech is the new Hi-Tech.

Jan 18, 08 - 02:40 pm Comment from: Spark

Hope they got a patent on the design.

Ditto Spark: Why didn't I think of that!?

Jan 18, 08 - 02:43 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Uh, did y'all check out "Yacht" on iTunes?

Jan 18, 08 - 02:47 pm Comment from: MacFhearghaile

Wow, talk about fast response to the market, I bet they sell a million of them. Great idea, to bad I didn't think of it, oh well.

That's a great way to misplace a $1700 laptop.

Does anyone else see the irony of priority mailing an envelope?

Just don't mail it by accident, the mails are brutal to sensitive equipment.

Also I hear these are presently being hand made, with enough orders of course they might be out sourcing the labor.

So expect some headaches if you do order from the demand.

Smart buisness idea though.

Jan 18, 08 - 03:04 pm Comment from: Ampar

I wonder how many will accidentally end up at the USPS dead letter office?

These guys have no background in making computer products. There are no photos on the website presumably because the sleeves don't exist yet.

Would you trust your $30 to an unknown, untested enterprise? How could you be sure that the sleeves were going to be manufactured?

I hope they don't really use red string to latch the envelope closed.

Jan 18, 08 - 03:16 pm Comment from: Chaplin

Definitely cool...

Geez, you guys are pathetically and anally painful to listen to. Have some fun for once in your life. It's only $30 and if it works well, awesome. If not, it makes a great novelty gift. If you don't like it, then don't buy it. Just don't whine. Please.

Cry babies. You're all just jealous you didn't have the nuggets to pull this off yourself.

Jan 18, 08 - 03:18 pm Comment from: Ampar

Be careful that your MBA jammed full of kinky porn doesn't end up in H.R. though inter-office mail.

Jan 18, 08 - 03:21 pm Comment from: Ampar

" . . . and anally painful to listen to."


Um, then I think you're trying to listen from the wrong end? Be careful you don't pass out. (j/k)

YACHT's super cool. Pretty far out that this is him.

@ Danno Bonano
"...anally painful to listen to."

Dude. They're not called "EarBuds" for nothing!

Jan 18, 08 - 03:43 pm Comment from: Ampar

TT: Young American Challenging High Technology?

Now how do they intend to get the machine to perform better?

Just my $0.02

I think it would cool to have a hard laptop case.... shaped like the laptop of your choice... When it opens up... inside is the foam molded area where your macbook air and battery goes.

Are they nuts!!!! Have they never done any experiments with STATIC ELECTRICITY and FLEECE????????? I can only imagine the problems that may arise from sliding a piece of aluminum up against fleece and the static charge that is generated. There's got to be some other padding material that would be better as far as not generating a static discharge. Will the static electricity wipe out data on hard drives? Do you want to be the one to take that chance?

Well shit.

Jan 18, 08 - 05:22 pm Comment from: ron

ApplePi, I think it would cool to have a hard laptop case.... shaped like the laptop of your choice... When it opens up... inside is the foam molded area where your macbook air and battery goes.

Yeah, I hope they make a case that looks just like my iMac, with space for a massive backup disk and 37 extra cables. NOT!!

Jan 18, 08 - 05:59 pm Comment from: LorD1776

I would be impressed if the MacBook Air was made out of "durable upholstery-grade vinyl". Then you could just roll it up and carry it in your back pocket. The day is coming.

Jan 18, 08 - 06:07 pm Comment from: Ampar

I wish I was made of durable upholstery-grade vinyl.

Jan 18, 08 - 07:33 pm Comment from: LorD1776

Ampar,

Would you like to be "lined with thick fleece" also?

Jan 18, 08 - 08:05 pm Comment from: Cubert

Wow. That didn't take long.

hehehe

I was wondering if they were gonna do this...

Jan 18, 08 - 09:19 pm Comment from: ken1w

Great idea... but I hope your MacBook Air doesn't get into inter-office distribution by mistake because you set it down too close to your out-box.

Good grief, yer MacBook Air's life hangs by a lil red thread. Are you kidding me?

Jan 19, 08 - 04:04 am Comment from: Petey

God that's original... NOT.

Jan 19, 08 - 04:07 am Comment from: Petey

So what happens if you dont live in the USA?

Every other country does not use that design of envelope.

I tell you what people will think - what and idiot carrying around a laptop in a business envelope that no one ever uses.

Jan 19, 08 - 08:22 am Comment from: LorD1776

Petey,

I heard they were going to make one for England that looks like a grease drenched newspaper that was used for fish 'n' chips.

Jan 19, 08 - 04:36 pm Comment from: DresdenSparrow

brilliant = obvious + acutally-doing-it

Jan 20, 08 - 04:50 pm Comment from: Crabapple

And they say that Apple does not foster new business's?

How many bespoke industries have popped up to serve Apple customers to date? Shame on whoever they are.. the few with the loudest voices that crowd our waking thoughts......