Gadgets: Twelve South Offers Stylish Storage for MacBook/iMac Owners
1:03 pm, August 26th, 2009, Ed Sutherland
Are you looking for options to keep your desk sleek and uncluttered but don’t want to give up the iMac, iPod, Mac mini and associated gadgets you must have nearby? Maybe you need a makeover. Twelve South, a new All-Mac company, offers two choices: the Book Arc and Book Pack.
The Book Arc is a creative way to vertically store your MacBook. The Book Arc accommodates a closed MacBook (up to 17-inches) or MacBook Air in a 10-by-4-inch slip with silicone cushions specifically designed for these laptops.. The product creates a desktop or workstation from your laptop and display. Running your MacBook closed stops your video display from splitting its resources, causing a noticeable operating speed increase in such intensive applications as Photoshop, the maker claims.
The Book Arc costs $49.95 for individuals or $249.99 for six people. Free shipping for a limited time.
UPDATE: The MacBook stand can actually give your MacBook 13″ a speed boost, claims Wired.com’s Charlie Sorrel. Using lower-end MacBooks (those without dedicated GPUs, like the new 13-incher) with the lid closed frees up the CPU from refreshing the screen, boosting the speed of whatever you’re working on.
Twelve South also sells one of the most unique storage options for iMac owners with “L”-shaped flat-panel monitors. We all use the “foot” of that all-in-one Mac for storage, but it disturbs those clean lines which brought oohs and ahhs when we first saw the iMac. The Backpack Portable is an ingenious shelf that fits behind your iMac, a perfect spot for your Mac mini, an external hard drive (pictured) or any other display item.
Like the Book Arc’s silicone holders, the Backpack uses clips, eschewing screws or anything else which might mar the iMacs finish. This thought to detail (especially for Mac cultists) is a definite plus. The Backpack costs $29.99 (with free shipping) or $149.99 for a six pack.
[Via Twelve South]
Posted by Ed Sutherland in Hardware, Macbook, News | Comment on this article
You can also just close the lid on your MacBook (or press the F7 key). That not only gives you a boost in screen speed, it also saves you 50 bucks.
imajoebob, on August 26th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I thought I couldn’t run my (not aluminium bodied) Intel MBP closed because of heat doing awful things to it and the screen? In either case, surely one should put your MacBook with the heat exhaust facing upwards?
Rupert, on August 27th, 2009 at 7:07 am
I really like that little shelf on the back of the monitor. so-much-so that ive just ordered one.
Andrew Macdonald, on September 11th, 2009 at 1:34 pm