A Notebook in Disguise

Book Style Binding — 12 February 2010

Is this a netbook or a notebook?

When I spoke with the nice folks at DayCraft, I asked them about their line of notebooks that looked like laptops, and although they told me that they were not going forward with production because of quality concerns, they agreed to send me one anyway. So keeping in mind that you will never be able to buy one of these, I thought Id share anyway because I thought it was a great idea, and visually, it looks pretty cool.

A side view of the notebook pages with all the appropriate porrts painted on

A blurb from the DayCraft site pretty much sums up all of the “features” of this notebook:

“These notebooks have plenty of memory, a big screen and boot up in an instant. Best of all they never crash or catch a virus. What more could you want from your technology?”

Sounds pretty solid to me.

Landscape ruling for this notebook

One strange thing about this notebook…landscape oriented ruling. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a notebook with the ruled lines oriented like this.

A DVD drive for your notebook?

One last view of the side of the notebook just for fun, never thought you would see a notebook with a DVD drive did ya? Hope you found this as interesting as I did, there seems to be no end to all of the cool and unique home office supplies out there.

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http://www.penaddict.com dowdyism

That is too cool! I wish they would work out their production issues and get this one to market.
http://www.robotninjamonsters.blogspot.com/ Alberto

Pretty cool product concept. Thanks for sharing these pictures.
http://toyingwithlight.wordpress.com/ Ruby

This is uber cool! Thanks for sharing! I would like a Fujitsu one though as they come wtih 3 year warranty! :p
E

I think the horizontal ruling is to accommodate vertical writing. http://www.daycraft.com.hk/en/location/hongkong/hong-kong-island
Mcsbeth

Wow, there is a lot of details in that. Pretty cool! Also cool- that you get to have one.
http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/ San Diego Office Furniture

Interesting – I guess the used landscape ruling so you would use it opened up like a laptop. They forgot to mention the downside of making a notebook that lookse like a netbook. It’s much more likely to get stolen. Best not to use this as a diary where you record all your secrets!

Daisy McCarty
http://www.soilheart.com Daniel

Oh, I just bought one of this. But a WOW one (i.e. a Sony Vaio “tribute”).

They have them for about 9 USD here in Taiwan. The binding looks kinda weak though (I haven’t opened mine yet) so I guess that’s where the “production” issue lies.
http://www.officesupplygeek.com OfficeSupplyGeek

@dowdyism – It is really cool, but when I spoke with the Daycraft folks it didnt sound likely that they would be working on getting these to market.

@Alberto – My pleasure, Im always surprised by the creativity that some can come up with things as simple as office supplies.

@Ruby – Too funny! I wonder if they come with tech support as well?

@ E – That makes total sense, thanks for pointing that out!

@Mcsbeth – Yeah, the level of detail is pretty amazing, kind of like how its amazing that I’ve managed to stockpile so many office supplies during the last year or so of writing this blog.

@San Diego Office Furniture – Good point, I never thought of that, but at least you could probably get this one wet without being out a few thousand dollars.

@Daniel – I have not given the binding much of a workout, but it seemed fairly sturdy. Its hard to tell though without putting it through daily use…but I probably wont be doing it with this one. I like just having it so Ill probably never actually use it.
http://www.soilheart.com Daniel

Yeah, me too. I bought one because it looked cool, not because it was practical I guess =P

Actually I think SDOS is correct on the ruling. This is the first notebok I’ve seen here on Taiwan (or in HK) with landscape ruling, so it’s probably only to further the “laptop illusion”.