Mancro laptop and travel backpacks

Start with the machine. Every backpack here is cut around a 15.6-inch laptop, and that number is the outside of the sleeve rather than a hopeful minimum: a sixteen-inch screen in a hard case will not go in, and a thirteen-inch machine will slide about unless you use the velcro strap. The sleeve has its own zip on the back panel, so at a security line the laptop comes out on its own and the rest of the bag stays packed.

Then decide what you want the lock to do. On the anti-theft pack the three dials sit on the pull of the main compartment and leave the factory on 0-0-0; changed once at the kitchen table, they buy you the twenty seconds a stranger in a cafe will not spend. They do not stop a knife, and they do not help at all if the bag is out of sight. The college pack for women skips the lock, takes a lighter shell and puts the weight on the front pockets instead, which is the trade you make for four dollars.