I can't remember which William Gibson book it is, but it's one of the more recent ones anyway, where one of the main characters has a cool 'cyberspace deck' (gibon-speak for laptop) made from wood in a custom case. It's called a "Sandbenders", purportedly made by some obscure computer company on the southern Oregon coast. You might want to look up the book so you can read the description, might give you some ideas about your own custom case, even if yours is to be plastic....
That would be my vote, call it something like that....
kevin orme
amiga university
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