Belkin F8N076-CGG-DL 15-Inch Energy Collection Messenger Bag (Chocolate/Green)

Comment: I was pleasantly pleased with the bag. The quality is great and it's actually roomier than anticipated.

Comment: I have been shopping for laptop bags for quite awhile and have bought several that I ended up not liking. I have finally found one that I love, and it costs half as much as the others that I hated. I have a mobile office so am constantly carrying my laptop, this bag is light, easy to use, comfortable and pretty. The zippers are sturdy and the laptop section is well padded. There are lots of pockets for all the other stuff I have to carry. I would highly recommend this bag for the person who has to drag their laptop everywhere.

Comment: Got this for my brother for Christmas as he was getting a new laptop from my mom... He loved it! The colors are lighter in person than in this photo- more of a leaf green and lighter brown. I didn't expect it, but the fabric looks like that stretchy kind they use for laptop sleeves... Still great though, and at a wonderful price! My brother really liked it.

Comment: I was looking for a laptop bag that would protect my new 13" Mac Pro laptop. I read the reviews for some of the other Belkin laptop carriers, and was impressed by all the useful pockets that were described, but concerned that they didn't sound too roomy, and as I usually cart a lot of stuff back and forth to the office I wanted something a bit bigger. This case is it. I bought a neoprene sleeve designed for my laptop (Case Logic 13.3-Inch Reversible Neoprene MacBook Shuttle XAS-13) and after putting my laptop inside of that sleeve, together they fit inside the velour lined laptop pocket in the 15" Messenger Bag with only minimal play. This bag was designed for a 15" Dell Energy Collection laptop, and I think would provide good protection for any 15" laptop without any sleeve. There is very thick foam inside the front, back, sides, top and bottom of the main compartment. Your laptop will be well-protected from bumps etc. Re: the other pockets, in the main compartment there is a zip pocket for pens (4" x 12"), 2 mesh pockets for external hard drives etc (6" x 6"), & 2 small pockets for business cards. The pocket on the front of the bag actually extends beyond the zip all the way to the top and sides of the bag (about 2" all the way around) and the pocket for your MP3 player inside that is big, an iPhone fits inside it comfortably. The port for your iPhone/iPod headphones is still there. The front pocket has extra foam in its cover, though not as thick as that padding the main compartment. There's a non-zip pocket on the back of the bag that could hold a notebook or two. The separate 6" x 12" zip pouch (chocolate brown) easily fits my Mac's power adapter and cords. It too is padded on the side that doesn't zip up. Like Belkin's other newer Messenger Bags, if you want to carry your laptop & accessories *and* other stuff too, there is room in this bag, you can comfortably get plenty in this very lightweight bags (which weighs practically nothing on its own). The shoulder strap is wide and comfortable, though only minimally padded. Note, however, that this bag does NOT have the standard clip that facilitates removing of the bag...unless you carry the bag by the padded handle on the top you will have to pull this one off over your head. There is no pocket in the strap on this one. The strap is comfortable and easily adjusted (shorter/longer by about 1 foot). The seams all feel solid to me, they are all double sewed, I see no stray threads. It should tolerate daily wear and tear well, though I guess time will tell. The zip pulls are all the same olive green as the inside of the pockets, and attach to the zips by metal loops, nothing flimsy there. As you can see in the Amazon picture, the zips on both the main compartment and the front pocket don't open up those compartments all the way (a good feature in my mind, to allow going in and out of the bag without the risk that everything will fall out). The colors shown on the Amazon picture are pretty true to life (the green on the strap and inside the main compartment and pockets is an earthy olive). Main point: this is the perfect bag if you're looking for a lightweight laptop bag with plenty of room for extra things and you don't mind a sling strap that you have to pull over your head.