This review is mainly regarding the padding issue.The laptop compartment is essentially the whole pocket in the back (no separate sleeve), so your laptop will sit on the floor when you put the backpack down. For such design, you would expect the padding at the bottom to be thick, but as I estimate it, the padding is on roughly 1cm thick, add the thickness of the shell, then you would get probably 2cm of separation between your laptop and the floor. My laptop is only 15" x 10" x 1", while the inside of the laptop compartment is 17" x 13.5" x 2", so it's a little too spacious and not a good fit.
Also, the padding in the back of the laptop compartment is thick, but the padding on the front of the laptop compartment is quite thin (less than 2cm), so when you open up the backpack at checkpoint, there will be very little padding between your laptop and the floor. Not much there!
Padding at the bottom for the middle compartment (inside measurement 16" x 13" x 3") is also very minimal. I planned to keep my camera and paortable hard drive in the middle compartment, but considering how thin the bottom padding is, I wouldn't dare to.
I really want to like the backpack, as it has well laid-out pockets, and is not too big for me (I'm 5'6") and is light enough. But keeping it would mean I'd have to add extra padding for the bottom of the laptop and middle compartment in order to protect whatever sensitive equipment I put in those.
I'm gonna order the Samsonite Xenon 2 to check it out, hopefully this one will have much better paddings.
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