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Ideal bag for mobile lifestyle
Jamie Phelps | Feb 28 2006
I'm having some trouble with my bag situation. Right now, I am carrying my LLBean backpack. This works pretty well for the most part. What it doesn't do so well is manage my laptop's cables and adapters well. I carry my charging brick and it's extension, retractable USB cables for my cell phone and iPod, display adapters for my Powerbook, a retractable firewire cable (just in case I need to do target mode), the cable for my digital camera (I know this isn't entirely necessary most of the time, and I could make this better by getting a retractable one.), and I think that's all... Then, I carry my moleskine (the smaller one), a mead marble memo pad, another journal for writing song lyrics and chord progressions I come up with, mints, Advil, antibacterial lotion, Crabtree & Evelynn Gardener's Hand Therapy, at least one book that I am supposed to be reading in for class, at least one legal pad and a steno pad, a couple file folders of project support material, and some spare file folders. What I would like is a messenger style bag that handles my laptop and its cables as well as handling my other life stuff. I also want it to fit my 12" Powerbook nicely. I think I will get one to fit a 15" though so that if/when I get a MacBookPro it will still work. It would also be nice to not have to carry a separate gym bag if at all possible. Since I am on the move a lot, I also want a stabilizer strap to keep the thing from bouncing on my hip. So far, the "Embarrassment" line from Crumpler seems to fit what I want, but I would like to know what my fellow boarders think. Have you used these bags? Do you recommend something else? 21 Comments
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 I wasn't going to mention...Submitted by pooks on February 28, 2006 - 3:41pm.
I wasn't going to mention it, but hey, I have no pride. The bag I've carried for over a year now is so ugly it's ugly. It's not ugly-trendy. It's just ugly. But when a year ago, I was looking for a "personal bag" to carry with me overseas (along with my carryon), I wanted something that would hold my laptop, some books, and whatever else I wanted to keep under the seat in front of me, at my fingertips, for the flight. I ordered a Crumpler Bag, an Eagle Creek bag, and checked out several at REI -- all that were specifically made for laptops, etc. Didn't like any of them. I finally ordered this one: http://travelstore.ricksteves.com/catalog/index.cfm?fuseaction=product&theParentId=8&id=217 (in the evergreen) And for some weird reason I can't explain, it just works for me. I figured out that I like the vertical configuration -- it doesn't catch on things as you walk by the way horizontal corners do. It also doesn't look like a laptop carrier so doesn't scream, "I'm carrying cool and expensive stuff." It feels better on my shoulder than most. It holds a lot of stuff -- in fact you can expand it and stuff it to the point where it's no longer considered a "personal item" and becomes a "carryon" bag, by airline standards, but I've never done that. For me, it just works. After a year of using it with no probs and great ease, I find myself checking out these other bags and thinking it would be nice to have one that looks really cool, though. » POSTED IN:
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