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Backpack or sling bag for your laptop and why?
exactly what the title says
**EDIT**
PLEASE NOTE: Sling bags in this case means a bag with a shoulder strap (eg: Messenger bag)
sorry about the confusion.
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By slingbag, I guess you mean these style bags?
If so, I think I'd go for a backpack (haven't bought my laptop yet). More room for other things (e.g. books).
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Messenger bag!
If my notebook is 14 inches or less I prefer a messenger bag, with a nice padded shoulder strap. Backpacks, don't really look professional, and they are annoying to move around with IMO. Sitting on the bus, moving around, you always have to be aware of these extra hump on your back. My friend is forever knocking things and/or people over with his backpack, because he forgets that it is there.
With my messenger bag, when I go to sit down, I just swing it out in front of me, and put it on my lap. Just feels natural.
If you have a 15.4+ notebook, then a backpack is probably the best way to go, just because of the weight issue. With something like the XPS 1330 though, I would go for a sling/messenger bag (depends on which style you like best) as long as you aren't carrying around 20+ pounds of other things like textbooks, binders, 26 oz bottle of vodka, ect ect on a daily bases.
Just make sure that if you do get a messenger/sling bag that it has a nice, padded laptop compartment. That is the one bonus to backpacks, they normally have more padding for your notebook. Not a problem if you get a good quality bag though.
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Re: Backpack or sling bag for your laptop and why?
By slingbag, I guess you mean these style bags?
If so, I think I'd go for a backpack (haven't bought my laptop yet). More room for other things (e.g. books).
yes... I mean those.. my vocab isn't very good so I don't know what those are exactly called...
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I have never liked the backpack style for carrying anything, Laptops included. In my opinion here are some of the reasons:
A. It does not look very professional
B. If traveling in nice clothes such as a suit or nice jacket and wrinkles it tremendously
C. Objects inside seem to move around a lot more freely and they commonly use zippers which can scratch things
D. It does not feel natural and must be taken off in order to sit with proper posture.
E. It is harder to make large numbers of compartments without additional pressure being applied to the objects in the compartments from the main part of the bag.
To me using a bag with a handle and/or shoulder strap is far more preferable. I currently use a nice leather briefcase I have had for a number of years with my laptop. I just ordered a Sager NP2090 which is a 15.4" screen (my current is a 14.1" and I do not know if it will fit in my existing bag yet (at least in the more protected laptop spot). I may end up in the market for a new bag (if the Sager ever arrives) and will definitely not be choosing the backpack style when I start looking.
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Okay, what you're thinking is a messenger bag, a sling bag on the other hand is something more like this (okay, that one's one of the more expensive ones, but you get the idea).
And me personally, I much prefer using a messenger bag to a backpack, though it doesn't hold as much. As someone who uses both on a regular basis (I have this bag, and this one, and I transfer my laptop sleeve between them).
Here's what I consider to be the pros for each:
Messenger:
a) more professional
b) can swing it in front (to sit or take stuff out)
c) doesn't make your back sweaty
d) forces you to reconsider what's actually necessary, so you don't carry a lot of junk you don't actually use
Backpack:
a) larger, so you can hold more stuff
b) better weight distribution, since it rests on both shoulders instead of just one.
So, there you have it, if I can, I bring my messenger bag, but I use my backpack when it just isn't big enough.
To give you an idea how much a my bag holds (which I imagine is fairly average for a messenger), I can carry my laptop in a sleeve (size 4), my AC adapter, about 1 notebook, 1 textbook, 1 paperback novel, and a couple other miscellaneous items (pens, calculator, etc). As for the backpack, basically double the amount of stuff besides the laptop, and that's what I can carry in that.
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If you are in a college situation a sling bag indicates there is a laptop inside. A backpack doesn't. Maybe a backpack is more generic and less prone to theft?
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If you are in a college situation a sling bag indicates there is a laptop inside. A backpack doesn't. Maybe a backpack is more generic and less prone to theft?
Good point... never thought of it that way.