While Apple’s soft lines, white plastics and overall contemporary look are probably responsible for luring in just as many customers as its trademark operating system, there’s no denying that the popularity of its designs can get a little tiresome. For those who have embraced Mac hardware, but want something a little more refined and individualistic to carry around, not many options really exist, besides cheesy cases and sleeves.
Designer David Munk Bogballe has made an effort to change that with his own take on the classic MacBook, dubbed the Workstation. By reworking the MacBook’s exterior with fine materials more suited to furniture showrooms than the mobile computing world, Bogballe has created a factory-massaged notebook that bears little resemblance to the plastic-framed device it starts out life as.
