I’ve been pretty reckless with my new laptop. It’s a little Toshiba machine, dual core Pentium CPU, 13 inch screen.

Very portable.

It’s so portable that I am finding myself to be very careless while “porting” it.

I often find myself walking with the laptop computer in one hand and the power supply in the front pocket of my hooded sweatshirt, for example. If I was to drop the machine, BAM! $600 down the drain, probably. I don’t want to speculate and create an omen.

I’ve been putting a lot of thought into buying a cheap yet serviceable laptop backpack for my laptop computer. I don’t want to sacrifice portability too much. It needs to be a pretty accessible and portable backpack.

Backpack Requirements

I want the backpack to be able to do the following:

• Hold a laptop
• Hold the laptop computer power supply
• Make both the laptop and power supply easily accessible
• Hold a camera, cell phone, wallet, notepad, pencil/pen and some other stupid crap that I probably don’t need to carry around at all
• Cost $20 or less

Backpack Actualities

I think my last bullet point relegates me to getting a backpack due to a:

• Garage sale
• Target/Kmart/Walmart/Some other supertmart “sale”
• Good pawn shop find
• Theft (I don’t condone theft, but it’s a realistic option to some)
• eBay special find

I’ll find one somehow. It’ll probably be at Kmart. I shoulda just went there instead of even typing out this blog post.

Backpacks of time past

I used to have a decent laptop backpack. It even had a nice shoulder strap, which made it very versatile. But one of the cats pissed on it, so much for that backpack.

Am I asking too much in my search for a decent, cheap laptop backpack?

I’ve recently been carrying my laptop computer around without using a case of any sorts. This might not be the best idea.

Backpacks of times past

I used to have a canvas backpack that worked pretty good for toting around my laptop computer. I borrowed that one out to get it fixed. The backpack had a strap that was about to fall off, so I wanted to get that repaired. I haven’t got it back yet.

I then had a laptop case. It was a decent laptop case. It fell apart too. I had to stop using it.

So, now every morning that I go to the office I am carrying my laptop in one hand and the power supply in the other. That is it.

I hope I don’t drop the laptop. That could be a bad thing.

I need to get a new backpack. This is too much of a risk.

Or, how about something like this?