Kensington 62238 Contour Backpack

The Kensington 62238 Contour Backpack is the ultimate in mobility for the comfort-minded professional. The Kensington Contour Backpack has shock-absorbing, heavily-padded contoured shoulder straps that ease neck and shoulder strain, and an adjustable lumbar support panel that reduces fatigue by shifting weight onto your hips. The Kensington 62238 is constructed with 1680 Denier Ballistic nylon that provides protection against abrasions, punctures, and tears, with a SnugFit sleeve that suspends and wraps your notebook for drop protection. This notebook bag features a handle that doubles as strap to hang your case from wheeled bag, an expandable bottle holder, and a headphone port for your MP3 player. It also features one-zip, flap-free access to the laptop compartment for quick removal at security check points, and a convenient front pocket that organizes key items at your fingertips. The Kensington 62238 fits most notebooks that are 17-inches or smaller, and is backed by a manufacturer's limited lifetime warranty. This backpack weighs 3.9 pounds, and has exterior dimensions that are 15.75 x 9 x 19.5 inches (WxDxH), and interior dimensions in the computer compartment of 11.5 x 1.9 x 15.8 inches (WxDxH).

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I'm giving this item 5 stars anyway because I don't thing one little detail should ruin a perfect score on such a great backback. I've been using a Kensington Countour carrying case (the leather one in fact) for a while now and it has been the best bag I have ever known. However, as I am a consultant, I just picked up a gig in Manhattan which requires me to walk a bit more than just from a parking lot to a building. While the Countour carrying case is very confortable, it is a larger size bag (there is a smaller one available but not in leather) and it is not light. So this sent me on a quest to find a good backback that's "city-friendly". Indeed the quest did not take too long because I looked at a couple of units in the store then went straight to the Kensington site since I've been a fan of their products. The backpack looked good enough to try out and I thought I could always return it if I didn't like it. I've only had it for a couple of days and it is awesome. As far as confort, it is unmatched (and I've had a couple of others). The size is perfect (I have a 15.5" wide-screen laptop). I'm not sure if it would fit a 17" laptop but those things are IMHO desktop replacements and not fit for carrying out the city. The arrangements of the pockets is excellent and the snug-fit pocket for the computer is superb. Now, you remember the title of this review - what's missing? Though I found snug little pockets for everything I want to carry, it would have been nice to have 1 more for the laptop power supply. Though this is not an item I carry on a daily basis since I keep one at home and one at work, when I travel, it is nice to have it in its own zippered pouch as my other Contour case did. In this one I would have to just through it in the main container area with paperwork and such. I supposed one of the pockets I used for my external mini-drive would have worked so maybe it's just that I personally need one additional pocket. The perfect place would have been a zippered area inside the main container area. Other than that, this thing rocks. The coolest thing is when you open the main container area, the laptop is secured in a tight well-protected sleeve and the rest of the area is quite open so you don't have to stretch the bag out to fiddle with its contents. I look forward to putting this thing through hell and high water in the streets of NY.