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<blockquote data-quote="_Stormin" data-source="post: 1363366" data-attributes="member: 216138"><p>So I know that some people love them and some don't, but I have been looking around for a shell to put on my MacBook Air when it's riding around in my briefcase. I know my tendencies for accidents (relatively low), but I know that I don't want to take any chances with my laptop.</p><p></p><p>As a bit of background, during college, one of my jobs was an engineering position with a manufacturing company that used a ton of plastic (as well as fiberglass, steel, aluminum, carbon fiber, etc...). I got very familiar with the manufacturing processes to make all these plastic parts in the couple of years that I was there, but then bigger opportunities presented themselves and I left.</p><p></p><p>Skip forward a decade (UGH...) and here I am happily clicking through links looking at plastic shells for the MBA... I shouldn't say happily because I am still in shock at the prices being charged. Up to $50 for a pair of thin pieces of moulded plastic. I know that they need to recuperate the cost of design, tooling, marketing, salaries, etc... But FIFTY BUCKS for a moulded piece of plastic, that contains the same actual amount of manufacturing effort as a simple child's toy???</p><p></p><p>I guess it's the "Apple Tax" and I will simply be more careful (the thing is aluminum and there is no other metal in the laptop part of my briefcase).</p><p></p><p>But I had to ask, has anyone found a reasonably priced shell that they like?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_Stormin, post: 1363366, member: 216138"] So I know that some people love them and some don't, but I have been looking around for a shell to put on my MacBook Air when it's riding around in my briefcase. I know my tendencies for accidents (relatively low), but I know that I don't want to take any chances with my laptop. As a bit of background, during college, one of my jobs was an engineering position with a manufacturing company that used a ton of plastic (as well as fiberglass, steel, aluminum, carbon fiber, etc...). I got very familiar with the manufacturing processes to make all these plastic parts in the couple of years that I was there, but then bigger opportunities presented themselves and I left. Skip forward a decade (UGH...) and here I am happily clicking through links looking at plastic shells for the MBA... I shouldn't say happily because I am still in shock at the prices being charged. Up to $50 for a pair of thin pieces of moulded plastic. I know that they need to recuperate the cost of design, tooling, marketing, salaries, etc... But FIFTY BUCKS for a moulded piece of plastic, that contains the same actual amount of manufacturing effort as a simple child's toy??? I guess it's the "Apple Tax" and I will simply be more careful (the thing is aluminum and there is no other metal in the laptop part of my briefcase). But I had to ask, has anyone found a reasonably priced shell that they like? [/QUOTE]
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