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Notebooks with Leather Enclosures on the Way

Fashionable Mobile PCs Approach the Market

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 03/17/2005 | 02:57 PM ]

For some people usual devices with traditional design is not the way to go. Even modding can not satisfy their exquisite tastes. For such audience Inclosia Solutions has found a way to decorate PC hardware with real leather, chrome and wood.

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“Inclosia Solutions has developed a process it calls Exo overmolding that can be used to add fabrics, leather or metal to PC enclosures. While the Exo process has been used to bring leather covers to small electronics products, such as Microsoft’s leather IntelliMouse, Inclosia is now starting to design and make laptop enclosure,” reports CNET News.com

But the products with even more fancy look will be available already this year.

“Tulip Distribution International Holding, the sales division of the resurrected Dutch PC company Tulip Computers, is showing off six prototype leather and fabric E-Go notebooks that it will bring to the market in October 2005,” claims the article.