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(More customer reviews)I really wanted to like this bag. I had my eye on it and decided to purchase after reading some rave reviews. When it arrived, I was excited for all the storage pockets, and the side-loading laptop compartment was terrific. Overall, it seemed a great design. Stitching was fantastic, and the thought put into arranging the angle of the zippers was evident. I packed up everything and went to our local coffee shop ready to get some work done. I set down the bag on the floor and -- thud.
Apparently, there's plenty of padding everywhere except where it really matters: at the base of the bag inside the laptop compartment. What suffices for protection here is a floppy little tube-like cushion sewed onto the base inside the laptop compartment. After some investigation, I discovered that this cushion flops side-to-side so much that when I put my laptop inside the compartment, ziped it up, and walked around for a bit to simulate normal use, the weight of the laptop pushes this cushion aside and rests against the bag shell itself. At this point, a few millimeters of nylon is all that protects your laptop from any surface on which you'd normally set down a bag.
Thankfully, I have a hardshell case on my laptop, so it was okay. However, for the bag, this glaring design oversight warranted an immediate return to Amazon.
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A cleverly designed daypack for students and commuters. Swing Around access makes it easy to dig without taking off your pack and the built-in laptop compartment protects your machine.
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