This is all bcos of Ted, I so totally blame him for bringing out the worst Onanist in me! 
It all started when he posted a You Tube clip on some American photographer who “Pimped up his laptop case”……….
I got inspired (aka poisoned) and soon after that I went out and got the Pelican 1490CC1 Deluxe Notebook Computer Case. Now, this ain’t some run off the mill case. This is one Bombproof case! It is Watertight (to IP57 Total Immersion Standards), Crushpoof (There is a pic of the case under the tyre of a pickup truck so there!) and Dustproof.
It meets and exceeds US MIL-SPEC and NATO STANAG 4280 for endurance and quality. Both sets of standards subject the Pelican cases to an extensive battery of standardized endurance and quality tests designed to simulate extreme situations gauging their resistance to vibration and high impact, as well as being subjected to high and low temperatures for extended periods of time.
Well that is certainly…….very reassuring…….
How do you go about improving on something so tough?
Well…….you Pimp It Up!! Kekekekekekekek!
I decided to build it up as a photographer’s mobile workstation – can be an event shooter or a nature shooter but basically a photographer who is out there, on the road and needs to download, backup and process through a massive amount of data in double quick time.
I went out and got two 100Gb USB2.0 External HDD in those flashy brushed stainless steel Stysen casings. Reason for choosing Stysen as HDD casings is that they come with a silicone shock absorbant sleeve that you slide over the HDD so that if they are ever dropped, they will bounce right up.
Why two? Well bad things happen all the time to HDDs and with precious pictures from non repeatable shoot, you really want to be Double Redundant when backing up from the CF card.
The Pelican case measures 504mm X 354mm X 119mm Externally and 451mm X 289mm X 105mm Internally and weighs a whopping 2.95kg without contents (but with foam inserts). The 1940CC1 comes with a Shock Absorbant Tray in which the laptop resides. The tray is basically a soft neoprene and buffers the fragile contents against bumping around the hard sides of the case during transit.
The tray also has Pelican’s signature pluckable foam inserts so you can customise shapes to hold items within the foam matrix by just plucking the required foam squares out to make a shape.
This is what it looks like when you open my Pimped Up case. The 13.3 Macbook is sitting snugly under the velcro strap in the shock absorbant tray. There is a removable foam wedge at the back to improve fit as the laptop is a bit too small for the tray.
When you undo the velcro strap and remove the laptop, the two 100Gb USB2.0 external HDD are seen snugly sitting insite the foam inserts of the tray. The two HDD actually sit under the laptop but there is no hard surface contact as they HDDs have a silicone sleeve that acts as a bumper.
The tray is divided into 2 equal parts and that suited me fine as I had 2 identical HDDs to fit in. Alongside the HDD, you can customise the foam to snugly fit in the Remote for the Macbook, a 2 pin power adapter, a 2Gb Thumbdrive and a 4 port USB hub. Everything is in it’s place and nothing is running all over when you are in transit.
The USB cables to the two external HDD are connected and routed thru the foam to a convenient point of connection to the Macbook which happens to be on the left hand side. Some notebooks have USB points on the right hand side so you can route the cables accordingly.
Alongside the tray is a narrower 3rd compartment and that is the place for the power adapters & cords.
chien
It all started when he posted a You Tube clip on some American photographer who “Pimped up his laptop case”……….I got inspired (aka poisoned) and soon after that I went out and got the Pelican 1490CC1 Deluxe Notebook Computer Case. Now, this ain’t some run off the mill case. This is one Bombproof case! It is Watertight (to IP57 Total Immersion Standards), Crushpoof (There is a pic of the case under the tyre of a pickup truck so there!) and Dustproof.
It meets and exceeds US MIL-SPEC and NATO STANAG 4280 for endurance and quality. Both sets of standards subject the Pelican cases to an extensive battery of standardized endurance and quality tests designed to simulate extreme situations gauging their resistance to vibration and high impact, as well as being subjected to high and low temperatures for extended periods of time.
Well that is certainly…….very reassuring…….
How do you go about improving on something so tough?
Well…….you Pimp It Up!! Kekekekekekekek!
I decided to build it up as a photographer’s mobile workstation – can be an event shooter or a nature shooter but basically a photographer who is out there, on the road and needs to download, backup and process through a massive amount of data in double quick time.
I went out and got two 100Gb USB2.0 External HDD in those flashy brushed stainless steel Stysen casings. Reason for choosing Stysen as HDD casings is that they come with a silicone shock absorbant sleeve that you slide over the HDD so that if they are ever dropped, they will bounce right up.
Why two? Well bad things happen all the time to HDDs and with precious pictures from non repeatable shoot, you really want to be Double Redundant when backing up from the CF card.
The Pelican case measures 504mm X 354mm X 119mm Externally and 451mm X 289mm X 105mm Internally and weighs a whopping 2.95kg without contents (but with foam inserts). The 1940CC1 comes with a Shock Absorbant Tray in which the laptop resides. The tray is basically a soft neoprene and buffers the fragile contents against bumping around the hard sides of the case during transit.
The tray also has Pelican’s signature pluckable foam inserts so you can customise shapes to hold items within the foam matrix by just plucking the required foam squares out to make a shape.
This is what it looks like when you open my Pimped Up case. The 13.3 Macbook is sitting snugly under the velcro strap in the shock absorbant tray. There is a removable foam wedge at the back to improve fit as the laptop is a bit too small for the tray.
When you undo the velcro strap and remove the laptop, the two 100Gb USB2.0 external HDD are seen snugly sitting insite the foam inserts of the tray. The two HDD actually sit under the laptop but there is no hard surface contact as they HDDs have a silicone sleeve that acts as a bumper.
The tray is divided into 2 equal parts and that suited me fine as I had 2 identical HDDs to fit in. Alongside the HDD, you can customise the foam to snugly fit in the Remote for the Macbook, a 2 pin power adapter, a 2Gb Thumbdrive and a 4 port USB hub. Everything is in it’s place and nothing is running all over when you are in transit.
The USB cables to the two external HDD are connected and routed thru the foam to a convenient point of connection to the Macbook which happens to be on the left hand side. Some notebooks have USB points on the right hand side so you can route the cables accordingly.
Alongside the tray is a narrower 3rd compartment and that is the place for the power adapters & cords.
chien
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