Smatree
A lid that turns into a stand
The MS and T series shells fold back on themselves. The lid swings under the base and the case becomes a wedge, so the machine sits at a typing angle on a café table, a hotel desk or a kitchen counter — and you stop carrying a separate stand that you would forget anyway.
Why the hinge is overbuilt
A stand case puts the whole weight of an open laptop through the hinge, several times a day. Ours is reinforced along the full length, so the shell stays square after a year instead of sagging into a shallow wedge that slides.
The angle we chose
Shallow enough to type on, steep enough to lift the screen off the table. We tried steeper. It looks better in a photograph and your wrists hate it by the second hour.
What else goes in
The base has a flat compartment under the machine for a charger, a cable and a mouse, and a sleeve inside the lid for a notebook or a pass. Loaded, it still closes flat — the point of the pattern is that adding a brick does not press anything into the screen.
Standing on a desk
Closed, these stand on edge on a shelf without collapsing. That is moulded EVA rather than padding: the shell holds its own shape with nothing inside it.
Picking a size
Match the machine, not the diagonal. Every listing names the laptops the shell was measured against, and the chips at the top of this shelf narrow it to one make.