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STM Radial 15" Messenger Bag Review
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May 30, 2025
Turns out that messenger bags aren't all created equal. A really good computer bag requires a lot of attention to detail and a recognition that the computer storage compartment needs to have lots of padding to isolate it from the bangs and scuffs of daily life. Fortunately, STM Bags has been making great computer bags for years, and the Radial Messenger Bag is another good addition to the lineup. With one slight problem, as Dave Taylor from https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ explains in this video review...
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hi this is Dave Taylor again and this
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time I'm looking at a computer bag this
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is the STM radial 15 inch laptop
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messenger bag so a messenger bag is one
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of these where the style is to have it
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go over your shoulder you can sort of
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see that it's a very nice bag I
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absolutely love this color this is what
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they call Moroccan blue the bag also
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comes in black and steel and my
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assumption is steel is a gray color but
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this blue is just gorgeous and sgm does
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a great job of paying attention to all
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the details with computer bags so on the
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outside there's a place you can slip a
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magazine or a book or something it also
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has the strap so if you have wheeled
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luggage you can slip this right over the
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handle very handy if you're a traveler
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there's one zippered compartment on the
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outside that gives you storage for a lot
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of stuff so this is typically where I
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have like headphones and such and then
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of course the main event and I just want
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to also mention this is a
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water-resistant fabric so if you are out
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and you do get in the rain probably not
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a huge crisis although I would not
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recommend tossing it in the pool don't
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worry it's not rated for that so if we
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open the main flap then we get to the
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inner compartment and as you can see
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it's kind of neat it's a sort of tiered
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design so the top padded section is for
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a laptop and this is a 15-inch MacBook
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Pro and it fits fine it's snug but snug
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is good you don't want things moving
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around and then in front of it here's a
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place for your tablet because of course
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everyone has a tablet and a laptop and
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then there's the main compartment and
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the main compartment you can see the
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power cord kind of takes up a fair
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amount of space there's lots of pockets
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in here there's even a way to wind a
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wire through the compartments if you
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want to have an extra battery and then
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charge your phone that you might keep in
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the front and you'll notice here there's
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another zippered compartment and in here
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you ready for this there's another
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zippered compartment so I'm pretty
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convinced you could hide almost anything
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in here and no one's gonna actually find
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it I don't know really recommend that
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you use this as a Chinese puzzle box but
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it's an option the only thing I don't
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like about this bag truth be told is
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it's a little too snug it's just a
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little bit too small because I typically
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travel around with my laptop and its
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power cord and headphones and I don't
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travel with little headphones that
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careful with big headphones like beats
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that that size headphones because I like
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to have a good quality audio and truth
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be told when I put my headphones or a
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sign hyzer audio technica I have a lot
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of different headphones if I have those
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in here and the power cord in here it's
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pretty tight in there and there's really
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not much room for anything else whether
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it be a paperback book I'm reading or
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whether it be notes for a meeting I'm
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going to or anything else
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so my take with how I travel and the
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stuff that I need to get around is this
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is just on the edge of being a little
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bit smaller than I'd like but it's STM
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bags they have such a beautiful
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attention to detail every part of this
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bag is well-designed has a nice padded
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shoulder piece that turns out to be easy
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to take off you don't like it don't
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worry about it take it off and the way
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you adjust the shoulder strap compared
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to other computer bags have seen this is
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so much better you just open it slide it
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to the length you want oh figure that
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out of a second here we go slide it to
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the length you want close it done solid
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locked and you're not gonna have to
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worry about it suddenly slipping even
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better the way the interior is designed
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is the actual laptop is in a padded
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section that doesn't go all the way to
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the very bottom so if you accidentally
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drop your bag you're not gonna have
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damage on the corners of your tablet or
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laptop which is super important I a
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couple years ago had a bag that didn't
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have that design and it did actually
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damage my laptop which was a massive
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drag so this is the STM radial 15 inch
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laptop messenger bag it's $99.99
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at STM bags calm and comes in this
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Moroccan blue very attractive or black
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or steel and depending on what you're
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gonna put in it this could be a really
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awesome bag for you so this is Dave
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Taylor and I'm gonna rethink exactly
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what I put in here cuz it really like it
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and meanwhile I'll see you in the next
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video
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