Notebook Reviews

I have had this bag for several years and I am VERY satisfied with it. First, it is amazingly spacious with many compartments for storage. The main compartment is huge, with a nice well padded area for storing your laptop. I've traveled hundreds of thousands of miles and never had any issues with laptop damage. There are side pockets on each side of the bag. One side has a large zippered pocket with several small storage areas within it. The other side has two zippered storage areas.

Second, the case is comfortable to carry around. As I mentioned, I've lugged it around the world and the only gripes I have are more a result of me overstuffing the bag than a fault in the bag itself.

Third, this is an attractive looking bag. The leather is smooth and fine, but very durable.

Fourth, customer service is impeccable! Over the course of the years, tears have developed in the leather where the shoulder strap connects to the case (though the design is such that even with these tears the armstrap worked fine). I called them up and they replaced my bag free of charge!

I highly recommend this bag as well as other products from Kensington. They have proven their worth to me!

Big fat adult-sized shoulder strap snaps and zipper pulls. A removable computer case. And sturdy construction. These are the things I'm happy with since getting the Kensignton TripleTreks Packer (and no, I don't work for Kensington.) If you want a quality bag, sans leather, this is the one to get, and at a fair price.

The Compu Pack is an incredible value, offering more features than many backpacks twice it's price. I particularly like the thickly padded back supports and the removable computer sleeve.

It is made out of a thin nylon, but it is rip-stop and seems to hold up quite well.

I ordered this from another vendor and the packaging says Lexar, but the xD card itself is Olympus brand. Works great in my Olympus C-50! If you can get the Lexar brand cheaper than the big names, do it.

The cord management function on this mouse has got to be the best of its features. You can wind the cord around the base of the mouse, and the USB plug clicks into position on the underside, protecting the optical sensor. I'm using the mouse with Mac OS10.3 on an iBook, and both the right-click button and scroller work exactly as they should. There's no thumb-click button, but frankly, that's not the most useful feature anyway on a notebook-sized mouse. There's nowhere comfortable to put the button on a mouse this small, and it would end up being more in the way than anything else, as I have found on other models.

This mouse is also visually pleasing - a sort of greyish-silver metallic color on the top surface where your palm rests, with a tasteful greyish-blue imprint of the Logitech logo, and black all around the sides. If you haven't used a notebook-sized mouse before, the size takes some getting used to, but the particular rounded design of this mouse makes it a comfortable fit in the palm. Also - I ordered this mouse on a Friday afternoon with supersaver shipping, and I received it by the following Monday afternoon! Great value for the price all around.

I have two of these memorex jumps "thumbdrive." Both have worked fine and taken a lot of abuse as well! No problems with pc or mac, usb 1, 1.21 and 2.0. you don't need any drivers, just stick it in the usb and it comes up as a drive adn you can drag and drop.

I have had problems with cuprrupted files on cheaper brands but never on memorex. Memorex support is great, I had one drive I crushed in a door (my fault and a strong enough impact to also destroy may car alarm gizmo) and they sent me a new one! I have had other brands (ironically the lexar "sport"), where the keychain holder broke, memorex is actually more study than most)

Memorex jumps are also true usb 2.0 and there are a few cheap ones that aren't.

For the price, no doubt. Buy it.

A very nice way to carry Compact Flash safely!

I use CFs in an industrial control system my company develops, and this product provides a safe way to transport them! I've purchased one for each of the software developers and others in our company who have a reason to transport CFs.

I've also purchased a few to use with my personal digital camera CFs.

I'd prefer a version that has space for four CFs and no PC Card Adapter, but that's specific to my needs.

They're easy to use. I've been through two packs of them without a single major mishap--I've always come out with a shirt to wear although the first few experiments didn't come out perfect.

Unlike light t-shirt transfers, they're durable. I spotted the first teeny-tiny crack in one today--that's after nearly a year of weekly washing & wearing.

Because of the texture of the paper, pictures tend to print a little lighter on the paper than they print on photo or normal paper--so results might be a little different than expected. And, if your ink is turned up too high, the picture might bleed a little in the wash--so wash them separate the first couple times so the excess ink doesn't stain your other clothes.

Excellent product overall. Just watch what you're doing and it'll turn out great. All of my problems were totally user error. I ironed a strand of hair into one of them and ironed another on a little crooked--but even those problems are the kind of minor things only I'd notice.

I've used one of these for 6 months, usually carrying my 15" Powerbook G4 with power supply, a graphics tablet, some books, and other stuff. I love how compact and professional-looking it is while still holding a lot. The straps are comfy, and the hip belt and sternum strap are a big help with heavy loads. The side-zippered laptop compartment in the back is so convenient - you don't have to open the main bag to get to it. Only a couple of small things keep this backpack from being perfect, in my opinion. Although you can fit a smallish water bottle into one of the side zippered compartments, you can't take it out and put it back on the run, as with a mesh pocket. When the main compartment is fairly full, it's difficult to take out items toward the back, because the zipper opening is not flush with the back of the compartment. But this small difficulty is also the flip side of two good features: the bag is not bulky (good for subway commuting), and this construction seems to put less strain on the main zipper than with some bags (my last backpack broke that way). The tagged zippers on the small pockets sometimes interfere with the main zipper. This one does not have an extra-safe suspension system for the laptop pocket, like some of the more expensive bags. That sounds like a lot of criticism, but really, that's everything I could think of to criticize. My husband borrowed it, and I haven't gotten it back since, he loves it so much. Now I need a replacement, and I might just get another of these.