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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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 Ha! I just did my...Submitted by emory on March 7, 2006 - 7:22pm.
onepinktee wrote:
Ha! I just did my evening check of the whatsinyourbag tag and there these were. I thought "hey, I've seen that Moleskine somewhere else..." :) I just saw Boblbees recently (on ebags?) and thought they were mighty unusual, although the black doesn't seem as backpack-rocket like. The white looks downright Stormtrooper-esque. How heavy is it? I have The Big One. Boblbee calls it a Megalopolis. My wife has a pink People's Delite, which is smaller. The PD will hold a 12-14 inch laptop with a sleeve around it, I bet. A wide-screen 15" would probably have to be sans-sleeve. But I could be wrong. I left Jumbo Stupid Thinkpad at work tonight so I can't test! Boblbee also makes a purse that my wife uses as a smaller bag for going out. It has straps made of kevlar to foil cutpurses. Its called a Scarab or something. Shoulder-bag, metal. The bags aren't especially heavy at all without anything in them. The shell is hard but not lead or something. It protects the contents without having a lot of weight. Its clearly designed for that -- weight counts. Remember though that I'm 6'3". I'm big-backed. I think most people should stick to the PD if they're < 5'9". » POSTED IN:
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