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I've been caught in the rain walking home from the bus stop enough times to take a second look at at the STM RainCoat at RadTech. It's literally a raincoat for backpacks to give that 'water-resistant' fabric (what a joke) some much-needed water-proof abilities; great for backpacks, like mine, that are toting all-too-important Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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leob said 6:08PM on 5-30-2006
Ever thought of just putting the laptop in a plastic shopping bag?
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andrew said 7:41PM on 5-30-2006
pack covers aren't exactly new, especially to anyone who's ever been backpacking.
granted, this is one of the only ones I've seen designed for something the size of a daypack... useful even if you're not lugging around a computer, and if it's anything like a normal pack cover, it should compress down to close to nothing.
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Curtis said 9:09PM on 5-30-2006
I'd really like this if it were built into a back pack.
And I've never thought of putting my notebook in a shopping bag.
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whitlock said 10:00PM on 5-30-2006
I'm honestly surprised that most backpacks don't already have this. I purchased an Eddy Bauer (shock) backpack years ago with a built-in rain cover that just flies out. The bag even had a plastic spine, making it a nice little internal frame school bag. There was a support for 'documents', though it held an old laptop of mine nicely.
If I just didn't pickup that Manhattan Portage bag, I'd still be using it. To answer Curtis' question there are bags with the built-in cover, though they have not bothered taking them to the laptop backpack market (like andrew pointed out), which still sucks.
Someone should post a link of a laptop backpack which is not only comfortable, but practical and good looking. Find those all wrapped into one and I think we've got what may be the second laptop backpack worth owning.
Any original Jansport laptop backpack owners out there? You know what I mean.
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Christian said 11:31PM on 5-30-2006
Or you could just buy a Chrome bag and leave the poncho at home.
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Bigfat said 12:58AM on 5-31-2006
Whitlock, if you don't mind spending the premium, http://www.crumplerbags.com are some of the best I've ever encountered.
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Ultim8Fury said 4:50AM on 5-31-2006
I just picked up a lowepro backpack for my 17" MBP and camera. Their AW ( all weather) series has a built in cover but does command a hefty price tag. So I bought the compudaypack. Now I also have ordered a cover from radtech to go with it.
lowepro link for those that are interested.
http://lowepro.com/Products/Backpacks/notebook_camera/CompuDaypack.aspx
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