The best backpack ever built

Hi there, I believe that there are many people just as me that for the past fell months and years had being spending a lot of money and time shopping for new backpacks.

The thing is, I'm a student living in London. What I'm telling you with that is that basically by being a student as you can imagine, you carry some bloody heavy books, a laptop (15.4') and more thing in it, and by being in London means that here we take crowed tubes, buses, walks a lot. Moreover it rains almost every single day. Even though with all theses things I still have more particular uses for it. My backpack needs to be strong enough to heavy things amd be quite big because I use for city breaks, small holidays, carrying water (in the side pocket), and be flexible to be placed in lookers. When I get home I used to trough at the floor (of course without my laptop). And more, sometimes the backpack is used hanging around through just one stripe over stressing the stripes seams and the junctions which hugely helps to destroy the bag as a whole. So because of all those factors all my backpacks end up, looking terrible when it comes in light colours, because of the dust, rain, filthy floors and lookers, by holding through on stripe it starts to tear the stripe itself or the cloth on the top or even the seam. I carry Uni books and my laptop so it needs to hold at least 10kg easily, and big enough to hold some trousers and t-shirts for a eventual city break. And stuffing it with cloths the whole thing forces the zippiers which breaks it and sometimes blocks/ breaks.

That said its easy to say that for the past 2 years Ive spent more than £160 buying backpacks and I've never found a really good and reliable one that makes through one whole year successfully.

So I've tried many brands and the things that makes my beloved backpacks to live longer, like using a messenger bag for a laptops, which helps. BUT it doesn't fit for me. I need a real backpack period. Even though sometimes I use a msg bag.

To summarize which bag is tough enough to survive a student lifestyle in London, stuffed with heavy books, laptop, cloths, MUST BE weather proof (heavy rain), needs to have great and reliable zippiers, be a quite big to be consider to be taken in city breaks instead of a proper travelling bag, external water holder, external pocket (1 is enough, 1+ is fine), at least 2 internal divisions (1 for laptop 15.4' screen). Needs to be a backpack. I take that up and down non stop 365/y, so one of the most important thing is that it cannot destroy your column and must be comfortable ( that's really crucial).

I know it might be a quite complicated but to be honest I've being googling, looking back to my experiences, asking friends around, looks for backbacks shops, and the real thing which will be my "girls eyes" had never crossed my way so far. And I bet I'm not the only one out there have this issue.

btw - Design is a +

So any recommendation?

All the best Beto

 

Check out some of the bags from tombihn.com. They make extremely durable bags, but they can be quite pricey. Also check out slappa.com.

 

Thx mate

Obs: slappa.com doenst go through, can you double check the url please?

Anyone else??

all the best

 

Hey there:

Try this: for Slappa ~

http://www.slappa.com/

Also please see this link (*stickied* at the very top of the Accessories Forum, here):
Links to Notebook Bag Makers, Dealers and Reviews:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=50734

^^^A great resource of information.


Cin

 

Ten kilos? I think you may be bleeding into the range of backpacker bags.

http://www.berghaus.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=1338&Gear=2

 

i was told that http://www.wengerna.com/synergy-computer-backpack is a quite good as well.. there even a review made by the forum... but does anyone have any of those?

 

There are a few peep's that have the Wenger... It's a nice backpack!

Ok..if your going the Swiss Gear way...YOU need the Synergy!
I have it, love it!

http://www.amazon.com/SYNERGY-SwissGear-Wenger-Computer-Backpack/dp/B0007CIX1O

review here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3631&review=Wenger+SwissGear


Cin

 

I'm very satisfied with Booq. They're expensive but excellent quality, features and design.
Also, in London you have a nice VictorInox store where I bought a nice messenger bag and they also have nice backpacks.

Dragos

 

wow.. this one from Booq looks really good and high end..

although id like to see one video though before commit buying such a expansive product an end up like the all my previous ones lol