A RainCoat for your notebook-toting backpack

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

Whitlock, if you don't mind spending the premium, http://www.crumplerbags.com are some of the best I've ever encountered.

Or you could just buy a Chrome bag and leave the poncho at home.

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.

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.

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.

Ever thought of just putting the laptop in a plastic shopping bag?