Wooden MacBook skins...

[Paddy]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/07/karvt-w...uminum-just-is/

I think this definitely wins some sort of weird award.

As one person commented:

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Looks like my grand dads station wagon.

[krissel]

I kind of like it.  But I'd rather laser etch mine.

[Paddy]

Interesting - and as the writer says - makes it virtually unstealable!

http://lifehacker.com/197202/laser-etching-a-powerbook

[Xairbusdriver]

But I'm not sure how laser etching would make anything "unstealable." Surely more likely to be "recoverable," if the item was found, of course...Maybe if one had one's face/name/"This laptop has been stolen! The person using it is a thief! Please call the police!" on it? Although that could be come very inconvenient...

And, as long as we're talking about "recoverable," there might be some drawback to those gorgeous wood (veneer) recovers! I wonder how well they'd stand up to scratching, water staining, coffee spills, sunlight, gamma rays, etc.? I'd absolutely like one, if I actually had a laptop...surely they'll have them for iPads, also...but I don't have one of those, either...

[Paddy]

Perhaps "unstealable" is not the right term - decidedly less attractive is probably more accurate. Let's face it - most thieves are stealing stuff to resell, not to keep for personal use. So a pristine MB that looks like every other MB in the universe is a whole lot more attractive than one that has a laser-etched design that is both distinctive and non-removable, and just screams, for instance, "I belong to someone who works at DIGG.".