suggestions for Messenger Bag to hold M4700, Intuos4 Med, and 11x17 papers?

Hi All,

I currently have a Belkin EVOmessenger bag, and although I just got it to tote around my laptop, it in fact carries, a Dell M4700 (15.6" screen), a Wacom Intuos4 Medium, and a Canon Canoscan LIDE 210 scanner, not to mention a pencil case, and my mouse, and full size headphones that I crammed in there, plus a slim slot on one side that holds 8.5x11 pages!




So I (or anyone else) can have a mobile sketching studio. I can sketch on paper, scan it in, and now use the tablet and laptop to render things in photoshop.

The thing is, my classes prefer me to draw on 11 x 17 paper. We do have a scanner at school, so I can take it out of my bag now, but I'm not able to tote around 11 x 17 pages without them getting crinkled in my backpack.

I look at 18" laptop messenger bags online, and it seems that their internal compartments are slightly too small for 11x17 pages, many times the internal dimensions are not listed at all (even on the manufacturers site).

So my question is, does anyone have any recommendations of a messenger bag, or even backpack that can hold a 15.6 laptop, 11x17 pages, and a wacom Intuos4 Medium?

I may have to put the 11x17 pages in some sort of rigid protector so they don't get crinkkled, but the protector is only marginally larger than an 11x17 page.

all help is much appreciated!

 

...did some research, looks like its going to be the Timbuk2 Premium Messenger Case, it serves as a backpack or messenger bag. It also goes by the name Timbuk2 Alibi on their website, but is $130 instead of $99.

It looks like it can hold everything, is water resistant, and durable.

Good luck all with your messenger bag shopping