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Buying a Laptop Bag

I was perusing my logs last night and it was interesting to see how people stumble upon my blog. It made me want to experiment and see what would happen if I do less navel-gazing here and blog about stuff that might actually be interesting to someone else.

So, in that vein, I thought I'd start posting the notes that I keep when I'm researching buying crap. I often scour forums and review sites for even trivial purchases, and while I often end up with just a collection of links, getting this indexed in the search engines might save someone some time if they're in a similar situation down the road.

We've recently added another laptop to our house, a Dell Inspiron 700m, and we're going to need a new bag/case for it. I just went through this a few months ago, so it's still relatively fresh in my mind. I was torn between getting a backpack or a messenger bag, but I ended up with neither. I wanted something that didn't scream "steal this computer" on the subway, so I went with a Sumdex laptop sleeve from eBay that I could just use with my existing bags.

Here are some sites that I found useful when shopping for a notebook bag/case...

Manufacturers/Designers:

  • Sumdex - sleeves, not very sleek, but cheap and good padding
  • Shinza ZeroShock - better looking sleeves, but pricier. might be tough to find in US.
  • Spire - cool bags that come with a protective sleeve
  • booq - very slick bags, but pricey
  • timbuk2 - lots of choices and colors
  • Brenthaven - functional, conservative, look sturdy
  • Boblbee - serious hard-shell cases for taking your laptop to the jungle. I'd consider these if I had a nice laptop, but I prefer to buy disposable, sub $1,000 Dells whenever there's a nice coupon code
  • Manhattan Portage - meh
  • Ogio
Retailers:
  • genpi.com - Retailer with nice selection
  • RoadWired - another retailer with a nice selection
  • eBags - huge selection
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Posted on Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:13 by Seni Sangrujee (2167 day(s) old)

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