Cat laptop bags and sleeves

As my avatar suggests, I'm very much a cat person and I'm always on the lookout for cat-themed items that combine feline charm with that all-important quality of usefulness/practicality. If you can find items like that, then you know you're onto a winner if you're searching for a gift to buy the cat lover(s) in your life.

I recently had to buy a laptop bag and during my research, I was very pleased to come across a series of cat design laptop bags by Rikki Knight, which are available to buy on Amazon. These are actual laptop bags rather than just sleeves (if it's a laptop sleeve you're after, scroll on down to the second half of this page).

Many people looking for a laptop bag online see a listing that says "will fit a 17 inch laptop" and are then puzzled to find that when it arrives, their new laptop bag is too small for their laptop! This is because some of us (including me at first) don't realise that the phrase "17 inch laptop" refers to a laptop which is 17 inches when measured diagonally. Of course, the diagonal measurement is always going to be bigger than the width! So to make sure that this doesn't happen to you, measure your laptop diagonally.

Maybe you've already got a messenger bag or briefcase that's big enough to fit your laptop, but you just want a padded sleeve to stop the laptop from being scratched or bumped while it's inside.  Amazon has a big range of cat laptop sleeves, ranging from the realistic (Rikki Knight again) to the cartoon, including Hello Kitty. As well as a huge variation in designs there's a huge variation in sizes as well, so do check the listing to make sure that the sleeve you're buying will be right for your laptop/notebook! 

Many listings for laptop skins also give an actual skin size, so you can then make a judgment call about what amount you'll have to trim off and where, and whether it will interfere with the design of the skin, so to speak. As with buying a laptop bag you will need to measure the dimensions of your laptop - but this time, measure the width/height as well as the diagonal, so that you have a better idea of whether the skin you're buying will be suitable.

© Empress Felicity December 2010