backpack or traditional laptop case

[beaker]

I use a laptop bag to carry my umbrella and an apple to work.

what a rebel!

[shelby68]

When I worked in Leeds we used to call laptop bags "mugme" bags due to the high number of staff who got jumped for their lappies on the millenium bridge, Personally I go for the trendy currier bag look.

[expat]

considering getting a backpack to carry laptop in and ditching my traditional plastic bag

are they any good or are the normal laptop bags better ?

my thoughts were backpack laptop lower profile so less likely to be nicked

A backpack on your back is a long way from being thief-resistant. Anyway you could just get mugged for it.

Do you really need to carry the hardware with you? I stopped doing it and now rent a flat near the current contract and leav an old laptop there. Carry USB data only, and can fly with very small shoulder bag.

[chicane]

When I worked in Leeds we used to call laptop bags "mugme" bags due to the high number of staff who got jumped for their lappies on the millenium bridge, Personally I go for the trendy currier bag look.

Where's that? I need to know so that I can stay away from there.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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If you carry it around on public transport i.e. train and tube some stupid f***er will accidentally fall on it or put their foot on it if it's in a rucksack as you are going to have to put it on the floor. They don't seem to do that with traditional laptop bags.

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The only time I've ever had that happen was with an ordinary lappy bag. I wouldn't have minded but the tube wasn't even busy. Woman got on shouted excuse me in estuary then without waiting for a response, pushed me aside and stepped on laptop bag (faux lea ther shoulder type) - Floppy drive never worked after that.

Last ten years have had a backpack - bought a new one this year, would never go back to shoulder bag now.

[DS23]

Get out more? DS3 says he's done "at least 482 flights", and you can't get out much more than that, short of hiring a space shuttle.

wss

[DS23]

though to be fair ruprect it was zzzzzzzz

[expat]

Get out more? DS3 says he's done "at least 482 flights", and you can't get out much more than that, short of hiring a space shuttle.

Business trips are not necessarily "getting out" in any worthwhile sense, and flights in particular are about as interesting as hibernation without the advantage of being rested at the end

[Churchill]

When I worked in Leeds we used to call laptop bags "mugme" bags due to the high number of staff who got jumped for their lappies on the millenium bridge, Personally I go for the trendy currier bag look.

Is that what the local upmarket takeaway uses for its deliveries?

[mrdonuts]

would a backpack to carry a laptop in be tax deductible???