Tumi Alpha T-Pass Medium Capacity Laptop Brief 26145

The Tumi Alpha T-Pass Medium Laptop Brief met or exceeded all of my admittedly high standards.

In looking at the bag, I am shocked how much I am able to fit comfortably within the bag. My daily contents are: 15" MacBook Pro, Kindle, iPad/iPhone, external hard drive, Bose QC15's with carrying case, newspaper, magazine, Netflix DVDs, pack of gum, passport, and all applicable chargers.

I travel between 20-30 round trip flights per year. This bag is specifically engineered for a business commuter. In addition to holding up to every stress test imaginable, this Tumi is comfortable to carry, easy to mount to your suitcase, fits underneath an economy class seat and it's very classy looking.

Perhaps the best feature is the T-Pass. Put your laptop in the padded laptop pocket when you pack, when you head through security simply unzip one zipper and put your bag through the x-ray machine. No hassle when flying domestically. On international legs, I've been asked to remove my laptop about 75% of the time.

A perfect 5 out of 5 stars: I'm not sure if Tumi is even able to improve this incredible product. Have recommended it to many of my colleagues, several of whom have said when their existing bags run their course they will upgrade to Tumi.

I have had this bag for about a year and it is the best laptop bag I ever had, including a couple of older Tumi's. I decided to go for a T-Pass bag after witnessing a colleague accidentally drop his laptop, while taking it out of his bag at the airport security. Now I just unzip one zipper and just place it through the TSA scanners.

Aside from T-Pass, I also like the narrow front pocket, which I think was originally designed to hold a folding umbrella. I use it to hold a small bottle of water (which the airport concessionaires sell for a ridiculous $3).

My last Tumi laptop bag was the wheeled medium-size 26102. So the only thing I miss from the older Tumi bag was the convenience of the wheels. If Tumi could somehow create a T-Pass laptop case with wheels, that would be the ultimate computer bag for me.

Update November 2012: I have travelling weekly to a client in Canada for the past 4 months and was quite disappointed that the Canadian equivalent of the TSA do not recognize the T-Pass feature. I have to remove my laptop out of the Tumi bag everytime I pass through Canadian airport security. One would have thought that North American airport security protocols should be consistent. Anyway, if you are doing a lot of domestic USA travel, the T-Pass is a great feature. If you do a lot of international travel, there is no advantage in owning a T-Pass bag; better to get the wheeled non-T-Pass Tumi bag.

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I have had a number of Tumi bags, and don't like this one at all.

The T-pass 'feature' consumes/wastes a ridiculous amount of storage spage, and this medium-sized bag needs that space.

The little pockets in the front take away a lot of storage space by being little and chopping up the area in the front of the bag. That wouldn't be so bad if the only other larger space could be closed. Alas, the space that they describe as great for newspapers is actually a larger, deeper space that could be used for other items if it weren't a gaping, open space.

Also, the shoulder strap is narrow and uncomfortable. I replaced mine with one off one of my old Tumi bags. Also, the clips where the shoulder strap attached is now plastic, which I guess they get away with now that no longer offer lifetime warranties. With the heavy use my bags see, I'm not expecting the clips to hold up.

All in all, disappointing for a Tumi product.

August 2012 update: it's interesting to watch the ''not helpful' scores accumulate at a far higher rate than any of my other reviews. My guess is that Tumi has people working to negate less than favorable reviews.

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I've gone through 5 mobile offices in the past year...either the compartments were lacking, one big black hole, no external compartments, etc... This one is great and like my past 2, are TSA approved. I just wished it was on wheels! Week after rec'ing this, I ordered Travel Smart by Conair Heavy Duty Luggage Cart and it works great. I only use the cart w/ the bag in airports (weekly) but on client sites, I carry the bag alone as it's not long of a haul fron the rental car to the client site entry. Bag looks great, durable and like all my experiences w/ Tumi...wonderful!

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After 3 month I can day that I am really satisfied with compartments and possibilities for packning this bag. I will comeback to this brand and this bag will travel with me for a long time