One week ago, my wife bought me this backpack for laptop as my birthday present. I liked its design a lot, but I thought it wouldn’t match the business outfit I have to wear every day. Well, I admit, I was still fond of my old suitcase; I’m a bit old fashioned.

Then I went to a business conference in Paris and I had to take the bag with me in order to please my wife. Packing was never an easy thing to do for me, but with Targus Zip-Thru my problem was solved within minutes.

It has 3 major compartments, the back one is especially designed for laptops and it can easily fit my 15.6 inch Acer Aspire laptop; there is also a small compartment that splits the bag in two and a larger sleeve were I stuffed a set of indoors clothes. A large external pocket is placed right in front of the bag and there I stored some files, the laptop adapter and some hygiene items. It also features some smaller pockets for various accessories.

Moving around with this backpack in the airport was quite ok. All the weight of my bag rested on my shoulders instead of my right hand, and that was a pleasant change. The check in was a lot faster than usual, I only had to unzip the special compartment and split the back in two for easier X-ray scan. I still had to take out the laptop since they scan it separately, but that took only few seconds so I gained extra time to visit the shops till my plane arrived. In the plane the bag fit perfectly under my seat.

If you travel by air, this Zip-Thru Air Traveler Backpack is a must have. It saves you a lot of time at check-in and it doesn’t feel like a boulder pending on your shoulders.