Smatree
The single page we would most like people to read before buying. Fit is the one thing we cannot fix after the fact, and it takes five minutes to settle.
Measure the body, not the screen
A diagonal is the size of the glass. Bezels have been shrinking for a decade, so the body around a fifteen point six inch screen is not a fixed object. Put the machine on a table, lid closed, and take width across the front edge, depth from front edge to hinge, and thickness.
Compare with our internal dimensions
Every product page lists the internal dimensions of the case. You want your three numbers a few millimetres under ours in all three directions — two to four on width and depth, one to two on thickness. External dimensions are there too, for checking against a rucksack or a cabin bag.
Count what you have added
A skin, a screen protector or a sticker layer sits inside our tolerance. A hard case already clipped to the lid does not — we cut to the bare machine, and a second shell is simply a bigger machine.
Use the make filter
Each shelf has a row of chips for the laptop and camera makes we cut patterns for. Narrowing to your make first is faster than reading titles, and it only shows cases that were measured against that make.
Sizes we cut
Laptop shells and sleeves in thirteen, fourteen, fifteen point six, sixteen, seventeen point three and eighteen inch, each in several patterns. Tablet shells by model rather than by inch, because a slate redesign moves the camera bump. Camera cases by kit volume, from a single body up to a full storage case.
If it is still borderline
Write to us with the exact model name and we will tell you which pattern was drawn for it — including when the answer is that we have not drawn one yet.