The AirMail notebook sleeve for Apple’s new MacBook Air is handmade out of durable upholstery-grade vinyl, and lined with fuzzy, soft fleece. All AirMail sleeves have the same dimensions as standard interoffice manila envelopes, which will serve to remind you — and everyone around you — that your new MacBook Air really is the world’s thinnest laptop.
The AirMail is the brainchild of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, two Apple geeks who decided to take Steve Jobs up on his idea that the MacBook Air can fit inside a standard manila envelope. (Besides, they wanted a cool case to show off their new MacBook Air notebooks!)
AirMail laptop cases are lined with thick fleece, which will protect your laptop from any cosmetic damage and smudges, and keep it safe from bumps in daily use.
AirMail is available for pre-order now for US$29.95 and you can expect to receive it via USPS Priority Mail by the time you get your MacBook Air.
More info here.
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.
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!!
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.
I wish I was made of durable upholstery-grade vinyl.
Ampar,
Would you like to be “lined with thick fleece” also?
Wow. That didn’t take long.
hehehe
I was wondering if they were gonna do this…
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?
God that’s original… NOT.
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.
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.
brilliant = obvious + acutally-doing-it
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……