Thanks guys! Spent my birthday in meetings trying to get 3 papers ready for a conference and sleeping early for another meeting at 7:30 this morning to get a grant proposal out. Tis the life of a grad student
I have one of these (http://goincase.com/...-sleeve-cl57736) which I like a lot but I think I would get http://sfbags.com/pr...avelexpress.php instead for the hard backing
also yes, mba audio outputs are so much better compared to pc laptops. Kinda wish it had optical out too
Its not too difficult nowadays to get a completely silent computer if you stick with SSDs and a low power cpu. My i5 setup (pretty similar to grahame's) is overall pretty damn quiet but not silent.