A sad day for my laptop bag
Well, it finally happened.. my PDC 2005 laptop bag started to tear apart at the seams. It took me about a week to finally choose its replacement. I had was looking for three things. It had to look good for one. For the amount of time I carry my laptop around with me, it's almost like a fashion accessory. My second requirement was that it was small. With the amount of traveling I do, the last thing I want is a big clunky bag. My final requirement was that it looked professional enough for me to comfortably take it into business meetings without being embarrassed. I finally decided on the Case Logic bag.
When the bag arrived my first impression was that it was bigger than I thought it would be. But the canvas fabric was an improvement over my last bag. The bag itself doesn't have much structure, so with out any contents in it, it shrinks down nicely. When it came time to move the contents of my old bag to the new one, I was happy to see that there was plenty of room. My only complaint is that there's no good single pocket organizer like there was in my PDC bag. There are a few different pockets, but they're just large pockets with no separators/organizers in them. I was still able to organize my things to some degree, so it wasn't a total loss. The strap feels a lot more sturdy than the PDC 2005 bag did. Its a wider strap, so it doesn't have the tendency to cut into your shoulder.
The bag is a little more faded than it looks in the picture, and the graphics aren't as crisp. I'm glad the graphics aren't as crisp, because I was worried they were a bit too 'busy'. I tend dislike the whole idea of "street art" on mainstream items anyway. It's like putting flame stickers on your car's hood. If you got a good flame job from a quality paint shop, it just feels different than the stick on one sold at the local auto parts store. Anyway, back to the laptop bag.. All in all I give it a 7 out of 10. It's close to what I wanted, but not exactly. But for $30, I can't complain at all.