Brenthaven Duo 15 Backpack for Notebooks up to 15"

The Brenthaven Duo is a striking backpack. It exudes quality with its high-end materials, serious-looking zippers and heavy stitching. The bag has three main compartments: laptop, notes, front.

Your laptop lies securely in a heavily padded pocket which even pads the opening when you zip the compartment shut.

The notes compartments is very tall and very thin. You can put 2-3 notebooks in there and slide smaller equipment into the flat long pockets that are on its side. There is not much room in here for anything beyond that. I was able to squeeze in a folded umbrella, two notebooks and very small folders, nothing more. If you want to take full-size noise-canceling headphones with you, well, there's no room here.

The front compartment has room for pens and pencils, MP3 player and other miscellanea. For a front compartment, this is a decent sized one.

Two additional pockets exist in the bag:

Under the front pocket a pretty expansive pocket is used for cables, power supplies and the such. Above the front compartment a small pocket can be used for sunglasses and other small items.

The straps are wide and thin without much padding, but are very comfortable. I truly believe part of the comfort the bag provides lies in the fact that it forces you to carry less stuff around with you. Carrying less, it weighs less, and a lighter bag is more comfortable.

Still, if there is one backpack that looks respectable with a suit, or around people wearing suits and carrying briefcases, this is it.

I purchased this backpack due to its CORE protection system. As commented in a previous review, it is a rather wide backpack. Much less flex in the outer shell than a 'normal' backpack. Although I like the built-in CORE protection, I'm may get a Brenthaven expandable Trek backpack for everyday use. It does not have the CORE system, but does have more pockets and a more standard backpack form factor. I'm thinking this backpack will serve me well for travel.

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Everything on this bag is as described, but be aware that it is quite wide, and looks more like a ninja turtle shell than a computer bag. Once you realize that, it is an awesome bag and protects your costly machine with great ease, as well as hoists your other goodies around with you.

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This laptop backpack is a great product. I had an incident with my previous laptop backpack when it was accidently knocked out of the overhead luggage compartment in an aircraft. Fortunately my laptop survived but was damaged. I decided I needed a better backpack that provided better protection and began investigating the numerous backpacks available. This Brenthaven backpack does just that, provides great protection. It is a high quality bag offering superior protection, all they space needed for incidentals and looks good to boot.

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This bag is made well like a Tumi bag and has the best all around

protection for your 15.4" or smaller laptop. The only issue is that

there is not a lot of extra space to carry additional items other

than the laptop and cords, etc (not enough space for overnight clothes or

even a pair of shoes). The price I paid was of $101 that includes

shipping was great considering the bag sells for $148.