Steve is unaccustomed to doing reviews on such trivial products as a laptop bag. Steve is accustomed to the cool things in life, things that go fast and turn heads as you use them. So why then is there a backpack on the pages of AskSteve.co.za?
Because this bag will take you from 0 to past security, quicker than any other laptop backpack on the market, and will turn the heads of all the other people flying to Cape Town on business.
All thanks to its “Checkpoint Friendly” feature.
As you pull up to the security checkpoint, you simply open the bag 180 degrees, lay it flat on the conveyor, and watch your device pass through the x-ray machine without the mess and inconvenience of removing it. No doubt the “rubber stamper” at security is going to have a problem with this, so they’ve made it easy enough to pull your laptop out, shove on top of the bag and come out unscathed on the other side.
Other bags in the range feature a laptop sleeve which you can pull out of the bag, while it remains connected to the bag. This means as you get to the other side, you just shove it back in and make your flight on time so as not to keep the other people who bothered to get up early enough waiting.
Aside from this little gimmick, the bag itself is a solid piece of equipment that I would feel comfortable hiking a mountain with. And it takes laptops up to 14-inches.
They’ve used at least 3 different materials in the construction of the bag including felt on the inside and it’s got Everki’s patent-pending corner-guard protection system which shows a little extra love to the most abused section of any laptop.
Dry weight on the bag isn’t tremendous, well actually, it is. It’s heavy enough when empty to know you’re holding quite a solid bag in your hand and that means you’ll know it’s on your back as you search international airports for the gate where you’re boarding.
And if it wasn’t heavy enough, they’ve included more compartments than a ward at a psychiatric hospital. And these are compartments you’re going to want to fill with stuff; otherwise you’re not getting the most for your money, are you?
iPads, papers, pens, sunglasses, business cards. These are all things you’re going to find place for and once you do, you’re going to be lugging around a bag the weight of a small, overweight toddler.
In my experience this problem leads to you packing only what you really, really need. But then you open the bag, see all the empty compartments and realise they’re taking up a lot of room in the bag without actually doing anything. So you should have bought something simpler. Gladly, they do have such things in the range: http://everki.com/products/checkpoint-friendly-laptop-bags.
Genius idea on the “Checkpoint Friendliness” but no human needs that much versatility.
Get it: R1300
From: www.rectron.co.za
