Billed as the ultimate laptop bag, the Manhattan Portage Wallstreet Laptop bag has a lot of great qualities. But it has some serious shortcomings as well.

It’s got tons of pockets, which is great.  But there are so many pockets, it’s difficult to remember where you put things.  If they were to line the interior of each pocket with a different color, or make them all different sizes, that might help.  But I’ve spent too much time rifling through pockets to find things that I think I’ve given up on the concept of a lot of pockets.

The exterior of the bag has a zipper around the outside that makes it expandable, which is great as well.  But there’s no way to lock it off, so it winds up expanding on it’s own over the course of the day, which is another drawback.

But the worst part is the padded shoulder strap attachment, which appears to have been lined with something that makes it impossible to kepp it from slipping off your shoulder. Unless you cross the strap over your head, there’s no way it’s not going to slip off.

But it is relatively inexpensive, lightweight and sturdy.  If it weren’t for the strap being too thick and slippery to stay put over the shoulder it’d be an almost perfect bag.  But as it is, I’d have to give it a C-.

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