Hauling your iMac
There are times when hauling a 17″ laptop around feels like a prison ball. And yet if you really value your screen size, 17″ can feel like a phone screen. So what do you do if you can’t do without the gloriously large real estate on offer with a 27″ iMac? You pretend it’s a laptop and haul it around as if it were…
We first noticed this when a graphic designer friend started hauling his 27″ around in a duffel bag with a pillow on the base. It turns out he wasn’t the first designer to try this, and so a mini industry is growing up around pixel pushers that don’t like to settle for small
From the research we’ve done, which isn’t exhaustive by any means, we’ve come across the following, with the Timbag being the one we’d buy if we we’re in the market. But we haven’t tried any of these yet…
If a maker wants our friend Jimmy to try theirs, then he’s keen as mustard to give a proper one a go. In the meantime, he’ll just keep sliding it onto the pillow and riding home with his 27″ slung inelegantly over his back, hoping the wind doesn’t blow.
But just secretly, who in their right mind would carry something this big around? Especially on a fixie! Chaos.
Here’s a few that we found:
Flightcase
Timbag
Bigsoso
iLugger
Or you could try this oversized backpack from Rip Curl. It stands at about 4ft high, picture yourself dragging this round. haha
Have you tried one? Do you use one? Any feedback to share?
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Tenba also makes cases designed for iMacs and Mac Pros and various displays. I’ve been using them for years at work and they’ve held up pretty well.
http://www.tenba.com/subcollections/25/Transport/Air-Case-for-Computer-Equipment.aspx
Yeah nice. They have a real ‘case’ feel to them, rather than a ‘bag’ feel. They look well made too…
managed to use the ilugger 21, it offers pretty decent protection,
but i found the mounting and dismounting a little tricky because of the base stand
of the imac having to be tucked in into the cover at the top.
And because the imac is inverted (base plate is on top) it was not easy to
allow the case with imac inside to stand on its own.
But its a decently built case and there arent many imac carry cases around,
its the future though!
Ahhh, darn those feet. I wonder if it would be even more awkward if you had a Hard Graft iMac slipper on
http://shop.hardgraft.com/all/imac-slipper
Hey ! Thanks for the post !
I’m part of the timbag team (one of the two designers from Grrr) and we’re very proud of being “the one you’d buy” ! It’s been a few years now since we had the idea that the imac could become a fantastic more-than-a-laptop with the appropriate solution to carry it (the imac was still white then)… We still do our best to make that possible and are looking forward to the next generation…
(we’re also very curious about a picture of someone with an imac 27″ on a fixie ! Poor imac…)
Thanks Jacky. Keep us in the loop as you progress with the next gen. We have several people interested!