Re: Laptop sleeve for Satellite L500-1DT

I recently bought a laptop sleeve advertised as suitable for the l500-13z assuming it would fit my l500-1dt. It is slightly too small and when I zipped it up, the zip broke. It could be that the internet shop I bought it from gave me the wrong size but either way it seems the dimensions of the l500 are slightly larger than other 15.6 laptops.
Has anyone bought a sleeve that fits theirs? Is it perhaps worth going for 17" sleeve instead?
Thanks.

Hi
In my opinion you should contact the shop where you bought the sleeve. Normally Satellite L500-13Z and L500-1DT have the same dimensions because I have checked the specification on the Toshiba website. So I assume that you did get the wrong sleeve.
I think if you contact the shop and explain the situation you will get a new sleeve for free and I doubt that you need a sleeve for 17 notebooks because L500 is 15.6.
Good luck! :)

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