Just in case you thought I get a little too mean when writing about certain products, here's an email from the people at Waterfield Designs regarding a writeup of their keyboard carrying case. You may remember that it caused "tears of pity and sorrow to moisten my normally parched, cracked ducts."
And what is this mystery new case, the accessory that will extinguish all life, not just human, from this abused sphere we call home? It's the SuperDrive Sleeve, a pouch that makes the keyboard case (and its good friend, the trackpad cover) seem positively useful.
Item: You haven't used the optical drive in any of your computers for the last year. Many of you will have owned a desktop or notebook and not even know whether the SuperDrive even works.
Item: You have bought a MacBook Air, which comes with a USB key to restore the operating system and leaves out the DVD-drive in favor of useful features like battery life and portability.
Item: You can download movies these days, you know.
Despite this, the Waterfield SuperDrive Sleeve presumes not only that you will somehow decide that you need to own a CD/DVD reader/writer, but that you will actually carry it with you. Not only that, but that you will do so often enough to need a purpose-made case. A $25 case with a ballistic nylon shell, a soft, coddling neoprene lining and a mesh pocket for the cable (or a floppy disc, I suppose, considering that you are clearly living in the past).
I'm willing to admit I may have gone in a little hard on the keyboard case, but a SuperDrive case? C'mon. What next? A Fax Bag?
SuperDrive Sleeve [Waterfield Designs. Thanks, Heidi!]
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