The Apple Blog: Protect your laptop – disguise it as a newspaper
September 8th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Handy tools and technology
A review from last week of several laptop covers that disguise you device (in this case an Apple MacBook) as a newspaper.
There’s a choice of five different newspaper sleeves – from the Herald Tribune to La Vanguardia.
“Potential flaws in the strategy might be greater risk of misplacing the sleeve with MacBook in situ, or the more horrific possibility of an over-zealous cleaner-upper including the faux newspaper with a pile of real newspapers headed for recycling or the landfill,” writes reviewer Charles Moore.
[Old media enveloping new media? The fate of the newspaper as an anti-theft device? There are almost too many allusions here...]
