The Mamba Courier from Booq is slim enough to slide under an airline seat and light enough to carry all day, yet it can hold your 11, 13 or 15 inch laptop, a tablet, a weekend’s worth of files, all your charging cords and a snack for the commute.
Unlatch the two metal hooks on the front, peel back the large flap, and you’ve got a big zippered storage pocket with a separate padded laptop compartment lined with non-scratch nylon fabric to protect your laptop from the beating your bag can take during the ride to the office.
Several fitted pockets hold smaller items, like pens, sunglasses, earbuds, a stack of business cards, protein bars. Magazines, books and important documents have a home in the large back pocket that also includes a concealed quick-access pocket, sized perfectly for your iPhone—with or without a case.
We’ve been testing the 13-inch version for a few months, replacing a bulky laptop bag, and it can hold everything our bigger bag held, and do it without busting a seam. And the durable, waterproof natural fiber fabric it’s crafted from has endured a torture test of environments from constant sliding under filthy airplane seats, to tossing into shuttle bus bins, to lying around on dirt tracks—and it’s come through looking almost like new. What little wear and tear it shows just adds to its character. And every bag needs a little characte. Pristine bags are for slackers.
Available in Black, Gray and Sand 11-inch: $90, 13-inch and 15-inch: $125.
