{"id":2270,"date":"2009-07-17T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:22:12","slug":"things-that-work-brenthaven-prolite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/07\/17\/things-that-work-brenthaven-prolite\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that Work:  Brenthaven ProLite Computer Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/Sl-yRPe3q3I\/AAAAAAAAAk8\/ag8JXA0oceo\/s1600-h\/IMG_0045.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_0045.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359198090877709170\" \/><\/a>When my wife and I packed for Africa in 2007, a prime consideration was how closely we could get to packing everything in airline carry-on cases.  Friends with prior experience warned us that lost luggage is a given in trips to Africa.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had picked up a nice case at the local Apple Store that was just right for my 13&#8243; Mac laptop, and included lots of additional pockets and storage areas.  It worked wonderfully, so well that this particular case was a constant companion on that and many other trips.  Being a diabetic, I have lots of pill bottles, and being a tech geek, I have lots of cables and portable hard drives, and other gadgets.  This one case, the Brenthaven ProLite, has proved the perfect case for me for years now, up until I upgraded to a 15&#8243; MacBook Pro.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cautiously, I attempted to put the new computer in the case, but with all the padding, it just wouldn&#8217;t work, not without surgery on the case which I wasn&#8217;t about to do.  My wife bought me a nice slipcase, but I was addicted to the extremely useful pouches.  For half I year, I&#8217;ve made do, using the slip case for protection, but carrying the computer bag without the computer to bring along everything else.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With another extended trip on the schedule, I decided I had to upgrade, and what I wanted was the exact same case, only bigger.  The only problem was that the Apple Store didn&#8217;t seem to stock that size.  I looked on the web and found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brenthaven.com\/catalog-all-apple-cases.html\">Brenthaven<\/a> site.  With a little care I found it.  There were three cases, the ProLite I, II, and III depending upon which computer you had.  I ordered the II and the free shipping and waited as my new case wound its way down from Washington.  $99.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/Sl-yQvlp2mI\/AAAAAAAAAk0\/pRBzFucbrwo\/s1600-h\/IMG_0042.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_0042.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359198082316229218\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>It arrived today, and I&#8217;m pleased that I guessed correctly.  It is the exact same case, only bigger.  Now all I have to do is start moving my pills, my cables, my passport, my wi-fi booster, my hard drive &#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Oh, and I&#8217;ll have to decide what to do with the Africa tested and still worthy old case.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my wife and I packed for Africa in 2007, a prime consideration was how closely we could get to packing everything in airline carry-on cases. Friends with prior experience warned us that lost luggage is a given in trips to Africa. I had picked up a nice case at the local Apple Store that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/07\/17\/things-that-work-brenthaven-prolite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things that Work:  Brenthaven ProLite Computer Cases<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,28,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_0045.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-AC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}