You can’t beat the versatility of a sleeve for your MacBook — they slip on in seconds, and offer plentiful protection, whether you’re just carrying it under an arm, throwing it in a bag (perhaps not literally), or placing i within your existing luggage without needing a laptop pocket.
Though there are many different varieties of protective shell for MacBooks, here we’re focusing on the soft slip sleeve. This kind usually offers the best level of impact protection, though unlike the hard shell variety, you usually — though not always — have to remove it to use your machine. Here we test four of our favorite MacBook sleeves.