Re:get a laptop backpack (Score 1)

I agree. My Samsonite backpack (they call it a lifestyle bag or something like that, but it's a laptop backpack) has done me great service over more than two years and about 100,000 kilometers. It'd be too hard to explain why I had to more or less drag the bag with my 15" PowerBook and a ThinkPad through a puddle, for instance, but both came out dry and clean--and fully functional.

But perhaps the most important thing: it doesn't look like a laptop bag. Your average laptop bag carries the words STEAL ME scrawled across its side, in large letters printed with ink visible only to other people. A nice, colourful backpack doesn't.