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Review: Bag of Holding

Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews

My employer for my day job pro­vides me with a 17″ screen lap­top and has pro­vided a back­pack style bag to haul it around in. Unfor­tu­nately my first bag shred­ded itself over the course of a year. The replace­ment bag I got was hold­ing up bet­ter… until our cat had an unfor­tu­nate acci­dent near it. Clean­ing the bag took care of that. Or rather I thought clean­ing it took care of it until the first time I got caught in a bit of rain and I was “treated” to a famil­iar order returning.

After that I worked harder to keep my work bag dry and put up with the occa­sional whiffi­ness. Then the other day, I noticed some money I’d for­got­ten about in my Pay­Pal account and around the same time I heard ThinkGeek had their Bag of Hold­ing in stock. It was the right size, looked sturdy and was within my bud­get. So I ordered it and have been using it as my daily bag for a lit­tle over a month now. Which brings us to the good, the bad and the ugly.

The Good

• My work lap­top fits snug­gly in the padded pocket.
• The heavy can­vas con­struc­tion stands up well to brief expo­sures of heavy rain.
• The bag has really great, front snaps. Rather than being just tacked directly to the out­side of the main body of the bag, the snaps are on lit­tle strips of the same nylon web­bing that makes up the shoul­der strap. This is gives you a lit­tle more wig­gle room to fas­ten the flap shut after pack­ing stuff into the inte­rior pockets.
• The bag is big enough that I’ll wager I can carry my work lap­top and my large 3 ring binder for gaming.

The Bad

• The padded pocket for the lap­top isn’t an inte­rior pocket under the main flap of the bag. I would have pref­ered it to be under the flap, so that it would feel bet­ter protected.

The Ugly

• Some of the stitch­ing is com­ing loose from the seams in a cou­ple of spots. It’s not much (a cou­ple of mil­lime­ters of thread) but it is wor­ri­some that it’s hap­pen­ing so soon.

Over­all, I give the bag 4.5 stars out of 5 and would rate it as rec­om­mend buy.

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