Review: Excel laptop backpack is roomy, comfortable, durable
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 16, 2007 at 6:21am
If you and your laptop live a vigorous life—perhaps you go traipsing through the outdoors in inclement weather—you should give Everki’s US$59.95 Excel backpack a look. Especially if you have a super-sized laptop such as the 17-inch MacBook Pro.
Even with an extra-large notebook inside, the Excel offers a surprising amount of spare room for electronic accessories, even a change of clothes. It’s made of nylon and features a padded harness with snap buckles to distribute the extra weight evenly and close to your body. Even when crammed to the brim with electronic gadgets, it’s comfortable enough for long-term use. I recently used it with my 15-inch MacBook Pro on a camping trip (my buddies and I wanted to view videos of our just-completed softball season).
The Excel sports a padded computer nest with document store, a zippered central compartment, mesh stash slot, and sunglasses and media player caches. This isn’t a backpack I’d recommend for MacBooks or for casual use—say, carrying a laptop to and from class. But if you’re packing a larger laptop in fairly strenuous environments (and a packed subway car would certainly qualify), the Everki case is roomy, comfortable and tough.
Macsimum rating: 8 out of 10
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
