<p>My s is going to Baylor this fall and I wonder what he should carry his laptop around in? Do students carry backpacks anymore? Bookbag? Help?</p>
<p>I really like my Booq bag sleeve (available at <a href="http://www.booqbags.com/Search.bok?category=Laptop%20Sleeves)%5B/url%5D">http://www.booqbags.com/Search.bok?category=Laptop%20Sleeves)</a>. It's small and light and will fit inside a backpack if you need to carry a bunch of stuff around but want your laptop to be safely cushioned.</p>
<p>For most of my stuff, I have a Timbuk2 messenger bag and if I wanted, I would get a sleeve for my laptop. Timbuk2 also makes great bags with laptops in mind (but I like their normal line better).</p>
<p>Right now, I have a smaller briefcase/messenger bag thing that is padded and completely dedicated to my laptop/power adapter/cables/etc. I got it from Gap for pretty cheap and I like it a lot (but its no Timbuk2)</p>
<p>Sorry to touble post (too lazy to edit) but I really like those vyper sleeves from booq. I dont like the other ones as much because they say "look at me I have a laptop but the vyper ones are more designed to be carried inside another bag which is great.</p>
<p>You gotta keep it nondescript by keeping it inside of a normal bag with a sleeve or getting a bag that doesnt look like a laptop bag (like my Gap one)</p>
<p>i use an extra padded bubble wrap mailer and that just slips into my backpack. i've had my laptop with me at school the past year and it works quite well...adds minimal weight as well! plus, if it gets damaged, i can just get a new envelope.</p>
<p>that is really ingenious, but what else do you guys carry around? just wondering if ottothecow and karthikkito used their laptops as much as they thought they would (e.g. all the time)</p>
<p>currently, i have a textbook, a binder, 2 folders, a laptop, and some power adaptors in my bag. :)</p>
<p>How about laptop backpacks (like the ones on the Booq website)?</p>
<p>I always found those laptop bags so bulky. I plan on carrying it around in my shoulder bag.</p>
<p>laptop sleeves are awesome because you can get one that is just a tiny bit bigger than the laptop itself, and you can then put the laptop anywhere. on ebags.com you can get a sleeve in a million brands and sizes anywhere from about 20 bucks on up. I'm eyeing a red one from victorinex myself...</p>
<p>if ur a girl then there's this cute backpack:
<a href="http://www.sumdex.com/core/NON-904.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.sumdex.com/core/NON-904.asp</a></p>
<p>or these are cool 4 everyone, but the store seems to be closed for now:
<a href="http://www.santacruzdigitalstyles.com/bia.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.santacruzdigitalstyles.com/bia.html</a></p>
<p>we have a jansport outlet here, and that's where i got my laptop bag. everything at the outlet is 50 percent off, i believe mine cost me about 30 dollars. it fits a few text books and whatnot in the bag with the laptop.</p>
<p>Oh no, I don't expect to use it all the time at all, I have the bag that I have because its a nice way to protect the laptop and keep its extra accessories together. I need it sometimes for one of my jobs and I have brought it on a trip (since I've had the laptop) so it comes in handy then.</p>
<p>If I actually had to carry it around, I would get that Vyper sleeve (I like it better than the timbuk2 ones) and stick it into my Timbuk2 bag.</p>
<p>I have an llbean messenger bag with a laptop sleeve built in. At first, I thought it was gigantic and waaaay to bulky, but after hauling around all this crap for a few days, I realized that the space was good, and sometimes necessary. Plus, it has an extra compartment for shoes! (Useful for the gym, or if you just want an alternate pair of shoes...)</p>
<p>Aren't most messenger bags too small to use as your primary bag?? To carry books to and from classes or just to use when you're running out somewhere, sure; but if that's the only bag you use then... Where do you put your stuff if you want to go backpacking or travelling abroad... and where do you put your waterbottle, ipod, textbooks, folders, binders, packed lunch and your cell when you need to trek to the library? That's a huge load of stuff to carry and it would never fit into one of those cute little messenger bags (though I do like the ones on the link jay posted :p ) Is a bag like [url=<a href="http://www.booqbags.com/Detail.bok?no=39%5Dthis%5B/url">http://www.booqbags.com/Detail.bok?no=39]this[/url</a>] really too huge to carry around campus and use every day? What do you guys think?</p>
<p>I don't know...seems pretty huge to me. If I have a bag that big, it just gives me an excuse to be messy...but that's me. Plus, that's quite the hefty price tag...</p>
<p>True. It does cost a lot, but the bag looks a lot sturdier than the vinyl plastic ones you see around, and it's larger and will probably last a whole lot longer too... I dunno :o What do the rest of you think?</p>
<p>"i use an extra padded bubble wrap mailer and that just slips into my backpack. i've had my laptop with me at school the past year and it works quite well...adds minimal weight as well! plus, if it gets damaged, i can just get a new envelope."</p>
<p>I would second this.</p>
<p>so having one of these protectors would prevent the laptop from being crushed by the weight of several textbooks?! (as long as the backpack isn't thrown around)</p>
<p>I think you underestimate the size of a messenger bag (a real one from a company like timbuk2 not one you get from a store; unless its a bike store).</p>
<p>The timbuk2 bags are made for bike messengers to carry packages. I have the medium and it has been my only school bag for the last 3 years. It has as much interiour space as one of my old backpacks. My friend has the large which is really fricking big and awkward looking. Messanger bags are best when they are near full and he was nowhere near full (and he definately felt the need to carry around more extra books and crap than I do).</p>