WaterField Designs

Price
$169.00

Requirements:
MacBook

What’s Hot:
Great protection for notebook and peripherals

What’s Not:
Limited color options

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Tom Bihn

Price
$120.00

Requirements:
15″ or smaller laptop

What’s Hot:
Built-in protection and convenient storage options

What’s Not:
Built-in compartment divider can’t be removed

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Higher Ground

Price
$39.95

Requirements:
13-inch MacBook

What’s Hot:
Keeps your MacBook–and your lap–cool

What’s Not:
Awkward strap for securing your MacBook

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The perspicacious Jason D. O’Grady has a review of the not-coincidentally futuristic-looking Futura Laptop Desk. The versatile accessory can lie flat for a lapdesk or fold into a stand for use at a workstation. While the impressively-designed laptop desk looks like it might be heavy for transport with its metallic appearance, Jason notes […]

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For the past several months I’ve had two products from Waterfield Designs in my possession, lusting to be reviewed by this humble writer. The benefit of waiting too long to sit down and review a product is that you actually end up using it. The two items in question are both the large […]

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Tom Bihn

SRP / SP:
$130 / $130

Requirements:
None

What’s Hot:
Stylish, thoughtful design

What’s Not:
Might be too tall for the vertically-challenged among us

If you’ve read my review of the Imago, you know I’m a self-confessed admirer of Tom Bihn’s bags. The Seattle-based company makes bags that, to me, seem quintessentially northwestern: stylish without being frivolous.

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Timbuk2

SRP / SP:
$90 / $90

Requirements:
None

What’s Hot:
Tough and attractive

What’s Not:
Built-in laptop sleeve not suitable for some computer sizes

Note: Because of the similarities between this bag and Timbuk2’s Classic Messenger, portions of that review will be reused here where apt.

Timbuk2’s Classic Messenger bags are exceedingly popular, and have become a staple on college campuses and among urban […]

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We’ve seen a lot of PowerBook bags over the years here at the PBZone: probably about 50 to 75 or so from dozens of manufacturers over the last 8 years we’ve been publishing. Some have been awful (think straps snapping, laptop crashing to the ground) and some have been truly astounding one-of-a-kinds (think handmade leather […]

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Who remembers the PowerBook 5300?
We do.
That was the first time Apple introduced a laptop that utilized lithium ion battery technology and there were some bumps in the road, to say the least. A couple of batteries caught fire just as Apple was shipping units to consumers. Only a few made it to endusers’ hands and […]

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Tom Bihn

SRP / SP:
$85 / $85

Requirements:
None

What’s Hot:
Very attractive with attention to all the details

What’s Not:
No handle

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Tom Bihn

SRP / SP:
$50 / $50

Requirements:
None

What’s Hot:
Maybe the most protective sleeve I’ve ever tried

What’s Not:
Not the most svelte bag

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