The Level8 Slimcase is an elegant little case, eye-catching simply because it’s so unassuming. Black neoprene adorned only with a matte metal 8, the Slimcase looks just big enough to hold a 13″ laptop, but also opens up to reveal several pockets for your power charger, notes, and travel documents. It’s checkpoint friendly for those who want to travel ultra-light or use the Slimcase to hold everything you need to use on a flight while you stuff everything else in your carry-on.

Not sure quite what to get for that Mac or iDevice owner in your life? As a group, Mac and iDevice users tend to be an affluent bunch—you know, the has-everything-gadget-guru who is notoriously hard to shop for and has pretty expensive tastes on top of it. Here are some high end offerings to make your shopping a little easier for the Apple fan in your life.

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Remember the good old days before the iPod and the iPhone, when you couldn’t rely on your iDevice case to convey your personality? Back then, you had just one thing to carry around—your computer—and that alone let passersby know every tiny detail about who you are. Well, some of us still carry around laptop computers, and Speck wants to make sure you’re making a statement with their CorePack Fly Messenger Bag and AftPack Notebook Backback.

The Saddleback Leather Laptop Case is an exercise in simplicity. There’s no elaborate folding scheme for airport security checkpoints, no hidden pockets for iPhones and whatnot, there aren’t even any zippers. It’s just leather. Mind you, it’s quality leather. 100% waterproof full grain boot leather with a high density Neoprene padding, as Saddleback will tell you at their site. But is that worth $265?

I can’t imagine the Omniverse will become the tote of choice for the dedicated followers of fashion out there. It’s not meant to walk the runway. It’s not meant to be used for lugging your laptop around town all day. The computer user who’d get the best value out of the Omniverse is the person who makes frequent short trips, needs to access the computer quickly, get some work done, then close it back up and move on again.

The Western Flyer is a very sharp looking, very sturdy bag that’s built to be upgraded. This is good in that you can basically turn the Western Flyer into whatever you want it to be. It’s bad in that nearly everything is going to cost you extra, and that’s on top of the already steep $160.00.

The SeeThru Satin from Speck and the Haptique from Uniea are both hard shell cases for your 13″ aluminum unibody MacBook. They’re not bags, mind you. They don’t have handles and zippers and nifty little pockets for your iPod and whatever motivational book you’re reading at the moment. They’re simply protective shells for your laptop, not unlike your typical iPhone or iPod case. Each is sized specifically for the unibody MacBook, likely with the intent of being slid into another bag when you need to lug it around. Yet despite this basic approach to functionality and design, there are some important differences between the two.

The Apple 1490 laptop case is for all you Mac owners who value your machines so much that you are willing to spend some extra bucks for extra protection. The laptop case was made by Pelican specifically for the MacBook Pro, and will fit both the 15-inch and 13.3-inch MacBooks. What makes this laptop case more »