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STM Goods has been making great bags, backpacks and messenger bags fo rmany years from their base in Australia. But is the latest generation just as good? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ has a close look at the STM "Summary" Laptop Sleeve and "Trilogy" backpack and finds them to be a solid addition to the line.
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A backpack so good your kids will fight you for it? Let's have a look
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Dave Taylor here and I have to say more than most products, this has caused controversy in my house
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This is the STM Bags Trilogy Laptop Backpack and the controversy has been who gets to keep it
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because they sent it to us for review and all of my kids are aggressively lobbying for this
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This is a very nice backpack. But let's start with what's hidden inside of it because actually
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I'm using two of their products simultaneously. You don't have to do this, but inside of the
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backpack I have this. And this is actually the summery laptop sleeve. And this is really cool
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It's also upside down. Let's do it this way. There we go. So this is the summery laptop sleeve. It is
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a padded interior. It is a water-repellent exterior. The zipper opens way up a lot to make it really
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easy to work with. And this is my 15-inch MacBook that is very easily fitting in here. And in fact
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there's enough space that I can probably tuck a little wire in there. But really, these sort of
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sleeves are designed just for laptops. That's really all you're going to be putting in here
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And they work really well. There's a lot of padding. The design is such that if I do this
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The laptop not getting any impact at all because there a lot of padding and stuff The zipper closes You can see in this close there no exposed zipper so it really ends up being pretty water resistant I would not toss this in the pool and assume that
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your computer is going to work. It's not rated for that. Don't even try it. But in terms of you
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carrying this across campus and having it start raining, you're probably going to do just fine
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Worst case, you can hold it upside down and then you have it even better sealed. but this is very nice. It's a very nice unit and it comes in a bunch of different colors. This is
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obviously a two-color design. It comes in a lot of color combinations and this summery laptop sleeve
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is $29.95 at stmgoods.com. But where this really gets fun is, let me take the laptop out of this
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and we'll just put this aside and we'll go to the backpack itself. So like I said, this is the
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Trilogy laptop backpack and it's called the Trilogy because it has three main compartments
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So it has a front compartment that has a lot of pockets and such and that's very nice. And then
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the back compartment is huge and has a mesh zip pocket which is nice for gear. And more importantly
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it has a laptop pocket that is designed, you can see my laptop fits in there just fine
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and it's actually designed to have what they call suspended tech. And the idea is that the bottom of it actually doesn go all the way to the bottom of the backpack It suspended and separately padded So that if I drop my backpack then I not even touching the laptop
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It's completely protected. And then in front of it, of course, is a smaller pocket entirely suitable for your tablet
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And you have a phone too, you say? Well, they have this front pocket
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I can get to it. Let's see. and this front pocket's going to do just fine for your smartphone and cables and chargers
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You have pockets on both sides for water bottles or umbrellas. This has a lot of darn pockets
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They call it, it's a 24L, I assume that's liter, 24 liter cargo capacity. I don't know how you
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measure this in liters. Maybe L stands for something else, but as you can see, it's a pretty
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big backpack. It expands a lot. So it's going to hold maybe a pair of shoes, a couple of books
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a t-shirt and shorts for you heading to the gym, you know, and then maybe in this pocket
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you can have some more schoolwork or something. Or if you actually want to work at the office
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then you also have the ability to have, you know, paperwork and stuff. And then there's even this
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pocket, which you can easily slip things into. This might be like a magazine for in-flight on
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an airplane. So really a crazy lot of options here. And then the shoulder straps are padded
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and even the little carrying handle, and I really like that they have carrying handles
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this is padded too And by the way the way it all designed you notice that I have everything opened and yet it balanced and the laptop not going anywhere So really really nicely done There a lot they done really well with this And like
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I said, the biggest problem that I face now is which of my children is going to get this swanky
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new backpack. So to find out and generally to keep up on things, go ahead and click that subscribe
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button so you can be part of my channel. Really appreciate that. Now, we already talked about the
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summery laptop sleeve. And again, upside down. There we go. So the STM Goods summery laptop
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sleeve is $29.95. And the cool Trilogy laptop backpack, this will cost you $79.95 at stmgoods.com
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And it comes in black, dark navy, or this granite gray. And they all have a second tone as a sort
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of accent. Very nice, very attractive, and you know, maybe I'll keep this for myself. This is a
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pretty darn nice backpack. So I'll have to decide that, but you can simply catch me in my next video
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