Best Apple MacBook cases and sleeves: Protect your 12-inch laptop

(Pocket-lint) - Apple's diminutive small Macbook, the smallest laptop it's made, is simply a godsend erstwhile it comes to genuinely portable productivity, adjacent if Apple has discontinued it. It's truthful tiny that you tin acceptable it into adjacent tiny bags - but, that said, you volition hazard scratching oregon denting it if you're not careful.

Getting a lawsuit for your notebook is simply a sensible choice, successful that light, and determination are a plethora to take from connected the market. Here's a enactment of the champion MacBook cases around. 

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Apple Leather Sleeve

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Apple makes a "Leather Sleeve" for MacBook successful "Saddle Brown" oregon "Midnight Blue". It features an etched Apple logo and costs comes astatine a beauteous steep price. It's beauteous basic, with nary bells and whistles, specified arsenic hidden flaps oregon areas to store earphones. But it looks sleek, and volition bash the job.

Incase

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If you don't fancy spending rather arsenic overmuch arsenic that, Apple besides stocks a hardshell lawsuit from Incase that costs acold little and should get the occupation done, too. It's translucent and classy, with a tiny scope of colours to take from, and won't compromise your laptop's portability. 

Inateck

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Prefer brushed flannel oregon felt to leather? The Inateck MacBook sleeve has a flannel wrong with a grey felt connected the outside. It's made from "environmentally friendly" materials and comes with a compartment for your MacBook arsenic good arsenic a 2nd for immoderate accessories.

Twelve South

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Twelve South's BookBook looks similar a vintage hardcover publication that you'd store connected a bookshelf, which you can. It's handcrafted with genuine leather outer panels, has reinforced corners, a cushioned spine, and a brushed interior. You tin prime it up successful "Classic" and "Rutledge" finishes.

Incase

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The Icon Tensaerlite sleeve has precocious and little "neoprene compression" panels with "shock-absorbing Tensaerlite" bumpers. The interior is made from a brushed faux-fur lining, portion its magnetic enclosure secures your MacBook and keeps it from ever falling out.

Native Union Stow Sleeve 12”

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The slim Native Union Stow Sleeve 12” is made to beryllium a durable mode to transport your precious 12" Mac (or immoderate different ultrabook of akin size).

It uses abrasion-resistant worldly connected the extracurricular paired with a waterproof zipper to support your laptop harmless from the elements.

The gaffe connected the broadside is useful for other paperwork, and the wide plan is tiny capable to acceptable successful a backpack.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills and Elyse Betters. Editing by Claudio Rebuzzi. Originally published connected 27 October 2017.