Mobile Edge ScanFast Checkpoint & ECO Friendly Backpack - 17.3"

This is one of the very few TSA approved Laptop bags that allow you pass airport security quickly. You just open a zipper and the bag flaps open with one part holding the Laptop only and the other part holding whatever you put in the other compartments. It's easy to handle and saves indeed some hassle at the airport.

The downside of this bag is its inefficinet space use. It's a very large backpack (16 x 2 x 11.5 inches) and reserves unnecessarily ample space (about 16 x 1.5 x 11.5 inches) for the Laptop compartment. You are not allowed, however, to put anything else there, so a lot of space is lost. That's a pity because MobileEdge could have designed the Laptop compartment much slimmer which would have left more space for books, paper etc.

I also miss a strap at each side that support the zipper when your backpack is really stuffed.

This backpack is great. I have my 17 inch MacBook Pro inside a neoprene sleeve for extra protection (probably overkill) and it fits perfectly inside the computer pouch of the backpack. Zip it open and the pack lays flat on the xray belt at the airport. No hassles from the airport security and no more removing the computer from the bag. That in itself pays for this bag. One security agent thought I was removing my computer as I was unzipping it and when I just laid it flat he immediately recognized the symbol on the bag and the big letters "Checkpoint Friendly" on the pouch. We both chatted about the fact that you don't have the aggravation of removing the computer anymore. There are enough pockets to load all your other stuff as well. I tend to take along more than I really need. Fits easily into the overhead or under the seat. The material is strong and it carries comfortably well.

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After a trial of trying to pack this with the items I would typically take on a short business trip, I returned this. Despite it being a large backpack, I couldn't find room for travel items.

Some of the pictures don't match the bag I got--on close examinations, it looks like two different bags are shown in the photos in the product description. The photo shows a nice compartment for pens, &c.--the bag I got has a compartment but it doesn't open as far as shown, only has a couple of loops for pens or pencils off to the side, and the loops are too tight to hold anything thicker than a cross pen.

The two small compartments on the back are very flat, and won't hold anything very bulky like noise cancelling headphones or a laptop charger brick. Every other compartment is deep, with no internal divisions to prevent everything in them from falling to the bottom.

Pros: It will hold a large laptop, and let you unzip it and lay flat to run through an airport checkpoint.

Cons: It won't hold much else. I tried finding room for the other things I would travel with for an overnight trip: laptop charger, phone, media player, noise canceling headphones, some magazines, water bottle, a granola bar, spare pen, a baggy with toothpaste, &c. I quickly ran out of room. I could have crammed everything into one of the deep compartments, but it would have all fallen to the bottom and been difficult to get at. Since I have a small laptop--I like to travel light--the space in the laptop compartment was mostly wasted. There's no internal compartmentation in there to put anything else in with it.

It seemed to be fairly sturdy construction. Might be okay for a student, carrying laptop and notebooks (but the lay flat feature is useless in that case.) It's just not very well thought out for a carry-on or overnight bag, however.

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This laptop backpack has lots of pockets for all of the accessories that must travel with a computer (power cords, mouse, etc.). The bag itself is a little larger than I would have expected but it does have to fit my 17" laptop. It is well padded. It lays flat for being x-rayed with the use of a single zipper. I would recommend this bag.

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Replaced a Targus case. Room for everything and a Dell 17" laptop.

Carries well nice straps. Supposedly "airport friendly" haven't tried that, yet.