Laptop Bags & Sleeves

A laptop bag has one job the rest of your luggage does not: it has to survive being dropped, sat on and shoved under a seat without passing any of that on to the machine inside. Padding matters more than capacity, and where the padding sits matters most of all.

Sleeve, attaché or backpack

• Sleeve — protection only, meant to go inside another bag. The lightest option, and the one to choose if you already carry a backpack or tote you like.
• Attaché — a slim carry bag with room for a charger, notebook and cables. Reads more formal, and slides over a suitcase handle.
• Laptop backpack — the right answer for a commute of any real distance, because it puts the weight on both shoulders instead of one.

What actually protects a laptop

• A suspended compartment — the sleeve should stop short of the bottom of the bag, so a drop onto the base does not land on the machine.
• Corner reinforcement — corners take the impact first. Rigid clamshell sleeves are built around this.
• A stated size, not a rough one — a 16in machine in a 14in sleeve stresses the zip; a 14in machine in a 16in sleeve slides around.

Measure your laptop's screen diagonal and match it, and check whether your model is one of the thicker Pro variants before ordering to size.

All laptop bags ship free across Australia with a 30-day return window.