Bag/Case for T61 15.4" & 9-cell

[Etheidon]

Does anyone have any recommendations for a bag/case for a T61 15.4" with the 9-cell battery.  My old laptop bag does not fit.

Jeff

[goretsky Community Moderator]

Hello,

My notebooks tend to accrete a bunch of accessories such as cables, adapters, expansion cards, discs and so forth other time, so I tend to look for something spacious with room for further expansion when selecting a case.  After a dozen or so years of travelling with a bag over one shoulder, I tried going to a backpack and haven't gone back since. I have found it to be much easier to travel when distributing the weight evenly across both shoulders.

Notebook carrying cases tend to be highly individual, which can make it difficult to give specific recommendations, but here are a few things you might want to check or look for:

Construction - the sturdier the better

Weight - less is more

Padded shoulder straps and back - better for your shoulders and back

Outside pockets - useful for travel documents, MP3 players, cell phones, water bottles, umbrellas

Some sort of internal isolation/dampening system - to protect your notebook

Here are a few brands you might wish to look at:

Brenthaven*

Case Logic

Crumpler

Eagle Creek

Lowepro

MobileEdge

Ogio

PacSafe

Sampsonite

Slappa

Targus*

Tom Bihn*

Trager*

Tumi*

Victorinox

Wenger

*(denotes case/backpack which I have used and with which I have been happy)

Right now I'm using a Tumi backpack which I purchased a couple of years ago, along with some small bags (a padded cube and a zippered sack) from Eagle Creek to keep cables and adapters neatly stowed in manageable chunks.  I keep cables wrapped with Velcro® strips so they do not get tangled, and keep extra ones "stuck" to the padded inside of the packing cube.  They are useful for holding spare PDA stylii, tubes of TrackPoint caps or hard drive screws and the like in place.  Also floating around in there is a slim Case Logic case with padded neoprene sides that contains my notebook's recovery media, just in case I need it while I'm on the road.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

[nuclearmicky]

Does anyone have specific recommendations for bags for the T61 15.4" with 9 cell battery?  I am hoping to find one of the "jacket" types (wear all the time) like offered by shoreline but am not sure if shoreline's will fit with the 9 cell battery. 

The previous post gives a good list of manufacturers, but I'm hoping someone has actually bought and tried one of the cases.

For those of you with a budget larger than mine, SFBags makes carriers appropriately sized for the 9 cell.

[wjli2]

STM makes good bag that fits your requirement.....