Tom Bihn Brain Cell: Would you be comfortable standing on the bag ?

I'm trying to figure out how much hard sided protection the Tom Bihn Brain Cell has.
Would you be comfortable standing on the bag with the laptop inside ?
Does the bag transfer the pressure through the sides like a wooden box or is it more like the laptop sandwiched in between two slabs of wood, which while protecting from impacts, would still damage the LCD from pressure ?

 

Short answer: no.

Not-quite-as-short answer: don't step on your laptop no matter what it's in.

Long answer:

Pressure from the top is not spread to the walls. Unlike a wooden box, where all the walls are connected, the Brain Cell's walls aren't actually directly or firmly attached to each other.

To take your wooden box analogy further. Imagine you have 4 slabs of wood. Now wrap those 4 pieces of wood in cloth. Then the cloth covers are sewn to each other. There is, of course, quite some room at the seams where the walls meet - a lot of wiggle room (probably by design). Furthermore, this wiggle room is actually substantial enough to move quite some distance into the interior of the "box" itself, meaning that any focused application of pressure at the center would damage your laptop before the walls of the case even reaches a point of resistance.

Furthermore, even ignoring the fact that the walls aren't really connected to each other in a design that supports the foundation of the "box", the walls themselves aren't "hard". They're soft enough to absorb impact. If you focused pressure from above though, the side walls would simply collapse and go squish.

The brain cell is probably good for light impact and light pressure that's moderately spread over a large area (due to the padding). So if you were to put the brain cell inside a Brain Bag for example, and have books on the other side, your laptop would probably be okay, although you can feel the outer compartment pressing against the Cell and caving it in slightly if you overfill the outer compartment. Still, 40 pounds of books is a far cry from a 150-300lb of human focused on a single point on the Cell

 

Thanks, the detailed answer is precisely what I was looking for !