MacTribe: Techie Trendy Laptop Bags

Everyone’s image and personal style is different, and depending on what it is, it can be hugely influential in various work settings. Whether you’re a fashion designer, investment banker, bartender, receptionist, hairdresser, or in any profession, there are ways to reflect your personal style in what you carry your electronic devices in. These bags and carrying cases that combine functionality and style are what we at MacTribe like to call: Techie Trendy- accessories that keep your important stuff together while making you look good at all times. Techie Trendy is the key to bag/case euphoria.

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Chelsey Henry:
Lugging around a heavy bag can look anything but “trendy”. Chelsey Henry’s bag: “Slim Laptop Tote” fixes this age-old problem us women face with its vertical design and ergonomic shoulder strap, and it’s cute to boot! It may look “slim” on the outside, but the inside there are a variety of pockets that can accommodate your cell phone, keys, wallet, and another other documents you may want to carry along with your computer. The price is also slim at only $54.00, and comes in Apple Green or Black Nylon. This cute and compact bag is a necessity!
www.chelseahenry.com

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The F’ace Brand:
The F’ace Brand is known for their line of faux leather laptop bags and sleeves that are inexpensive but look anything but cheap. These bags are perfect for the stylish laptop user that wants edgy fashion without being over the top. Offering a variety of styles ranging from their understated faux-leather distressed casual totes like the “Glami” to their more trendy vibrant “Celene”, you can express yourself in tons of ways with these bags starting at the low price of $59.99. “Celene” even comes with a free wristlet “Fairy’s Carpus”, normally $29.99!
http://thefacebrand.com/

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Gina B International:
For the ladies that really want to carry their laptop bag in luxury, then Gina B. International’s bag “Bella” is the one for you. The bag’s exterior, made of soft leather with braided handles and silver hardware would fool anyone from thinking that its contents were made to accommodate a computer. Not only does this handbag come with a laptop sleeve that can be removed and worn on its own with the included shoulder strap, but also inside are organizational pockets for your accessories and two large compartments to hold anything else you may need as a professional woman on the go. At $298 you too can be living in the lap of luxury.
www.ginabinternational.com/

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Kena Kai:
Laptop sleeves are perfect for transporting your device within the office or inside of another bag. Most of the ones on the market are pretty lacking when it comes to being fashion forward. One exception is Kena Kai’s “Italian Leather Embossed Ostrich Notebook Sleeve”, getting high marks on our trendiness scale. Made from full-grain Italian leather lined with chocolate colored suede, this sleeve is like no other especially in its color choices of Blue, Chocolate, Orange, and Gold Lizard Print. With a gold-toned zipper and its unusual texture, this sleeve is offered at $199, it may seem a bit pricey, but coming with a lifetime guarantee, you are truly guaranteed to standout from the rest, and that’s priceless!
www.kenakai.com/

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Speck:
Speck has a reputation of putting out highly functional products that always seem to have a cool vibe. Their recent line of notebook cases and sleeves stick to Speck’s theme, especially with the PortPack Shoulder Bag. This bag knows that its cool with its compartmentalized design offered in two unisex patterns of either Speakeasy Black Pinstripe or in Coffeehouse Brown Plaid. Users can fit anything from their keys (attaching them to the key leach fob), to their iPod (in a pocket with headphone cord pass-through) in addition to their beloved 15” MacBook and smaller. The price is pretty cool too at $79.95.
www.speckproducts.com

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Melissa Beth:
Melissa Beth Designs is known for their chic women’s laptop bags. For a fresh, preppy look, the “North South” bag safely carries laptops 15” and smaller, and has ample room for anything else that you may need as a girl on the go for the price of $79. Its solid nylon body (coming in deep colors of purple, green, grey, and black) contrasts to its over-the-shoulder handles of striped grosgrain giving the bag an almost “beachy” feel. Melissabethdesigns.com

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Built NYC:
Built NYC offers a variety of products including unusually shaped notebook sleeves, laptop backpacks, lunch boxes, and bottle totes. Combining functionality with quirky trendiness, the “Platform Laptop Case” retails at $44.99. This product fits up to a 15” laptop and is perfect for anyone seeking a mobile office. It is a hard shell that opens with your laptop allowing users to keep their notebook inside the case while they use it. It also functions as a laptop platform because of its hard base. The “Bumper Laptop Case” is a sleeve that costs from $29.99 to $37.99 depending on the size. It definitely doesn’t look like the usual laptop case as there are actual “bumpers” lining ?th of its outer rim. This scalloped edge effect helps protect the enclosed laptop while also being eye-catching. All of Built NYC’s products come in a variety of colors and prints.
www.builtny.com/

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Zeal Optics:
Zeal Optics has managed to take care of two of today’s on-the-go necessities in one product with the “world’s first integrated blue tooth sunglasses”. The product is rightly named “Confident”, because wearing these will make you have all the confidence in the world knowing that you are protecting your eyes while concealing a completely hands-free headset with a sporty look. The glasses come with a ZB-13 PX light-adjusting lens that is clear when indoors and Sepia colored once exposed to sunlight. At $190 these sunglasses are competitive with other designer sunglasses.
www.zealoptics.com/index2.php

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