There are three things we enjoy at Appletell: the iPad, Speck products and free stuff. With the help of the fine people at Speck, we’re going to combine all three to give you the chance to win your choice of iPad case from any in the Speck product line. Choose your model, choose your color/design, then just sit back and wait for your name to be called. Hurry, though…the contest ends at midnight, September 15th.

As we all know, the kind of cover you put on your laptop says a lot about you; everything, in fact. It gives people exactly the kinds of deep insights into your personality that are normally reserved for years of close friendship or Twitter feeds. “Who are you, Mac user? What mysteries does your MacbookPro hold? What kind of screenplay are you tapping away at as you drink your dark mocha latte, soy, no whipped cream?” People are thinking this, I know.

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.