That is a big limitation, I know that in the Tom Bihn lineup only their largest bags will hold one. And those bags are big. I have one and it looks and feels pretty large for me, and I’m 6’ tall.
yeah, once this one breaks i won’t get another one this big.
I think the Swiss Gear bag you linked is pretty nice, I have a similar one. One suggestion: don’t get it in all-black. I see dozens of these every time I travel and like 90% of them are black, one of these days I’m going to accidentally switch bags with a stranger.
No need for early bird on Southwest as long as you can check in exactly 24 hours before flight time. Usually I get something around the mid-B, plenty of aisle seats left as long as you’re not in C. IIRC the only time I got hit with C was when they had to reroute me, though on one of the stops I didn’t have to change planes so I got my choice of seats after the first set of travelers had cleared the aircraft.
too late for that. i bought it in all black in december, 2017. thus far i haven’t mixed it up with anyone else’s. if i was gonna buy it now i probably would get a different color.
will see what i get. hopefully there is an option to upgrade at the airport if i find my spot too risky. yeah, i’ll definitely check in at exactly 24 hours prior.
I usually travel with a full-size carry-on, and a small backpack I can shove under the seat in front of me. I take both on the plane with me.
I only check a bag if I need more stuff than fits in those two.
I don’t think I’ve ever traveled with more than one laptop.
Why do you carry 2 laptops?
I’m not ao_fan, but I regularly carry two laptops.
My work laptop is locked down such that it will only connect to corporate networks or VPN, and from the corporate network, many/most personal internet uses are restricted.
While I can do a lot of personal stuff on my phone, or if I carried a tablet…I hate tapping on screens. I’ll put up with it for a night or two, but more than that I’ll want a computer.
I hate travelling even with one laptop and then use an iPad or iPhone for personal stuff. Hopefully your laptops aren’t of the larger variety.
My work laptop was recently upgraded to a fairly small device, and my travel laptop is a small MacBook Pro. The two together are just under 3 lbs, and they, plus my phone, all use USB-C for power so I only need a single power brick.
MUCH better than pre-pandemic, when I was using beefier gadgets, none of which shared power bricks.
I do have another personal laptop in use, but it’s a big SOB (a custom “gaming” machine – lots of memory, lots of power, lousy battery life…weighs more than my work laptop and my MacBook together). I’ll take it out sometimes for specific hobby purposes, but I wouldn’t want to lug it (and its power brick) if I were also carrying the work machine.
work laptop and personal laptop. my personal laptop has all my passwords stored and work laptop blocks discord and gmail.
i could probably not bring it, but when i’m away for an extended period of time i prefer having it.
we used to not have work laptops and we would use personal laptops to connect to the network, but now it’s work laptops, thus i have 2 to lug around.
when i’m traveling for vacation, i might bring just my personal laptop. i’m not traveling for vacation though. i’m escaping new york yet again and working from my destination.
mine are not light. it’s not ideal. well, the larger one is the lightest 17" laptop in the world, but as a 17" laptop it’s not that light. the smaller one, 13" is pretty heavy for a 13" laptop i think.
Yeah, I normally travel for vacation, not for work, and leave my work laptop at home. When I’m traveling for work, it’s usually just a few days, and either I won’t need my work laptop (I’m at a CAS meeting, and told people to send anything urgent to my personal email. I’m not going to be grinding away at my laptop at an event like that, at most I might answer one or two urgent questions) or I can do without a personal laptop.
Be careful lugging those laptops: would hate to see a thread about your chiropractic care! From bitter personal experience, I know travelling with heavy objects can wreck your back.
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i already have a not so stellar back that tends to throw itself out just cause it feels like it.
Our company is strict about data security, they would never allow company business to be done on personal email. In fact they just blocked personal email accounts on company laptops, which is a pain since I prefer to use personal email for CAS volunteer activities. We get company emails on our phones in case of emergency but I like to have my work laptop with me in case something comes up, and sometimes nice to be able to show up for work while traveling so that I can save vacation days. But in general management is respectful of people’s vacation time and when I’ve had to work on vacation it hasn’t used up too much of my time.
The email they send to my personal account doesn’t say, “Should I book $1M to the XYZ account.” It says, “I have a question about booking, can you give me a call?” We don’t send confidential stuff over personal email, either.
And we haven’t been allowed to use personal email on company computers for years, but I can address an email to anyone. (there’s some automatic scanning looking for potentially restricted stuff.) For that matter, all my coworkers have cell phones.
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I got position B18. Is that good enough to get an aisle seat or should I pay $40 for an A1-A15 position? seems JGFCAS says it will get me an aisle seat.
I checked in the second the 24-hour mark began.
A Southwest 737-700 seats 143 passengers.
A Southwest 737-800 seats 175 passengers.
The wildcards are:
- How many people will be through passengers, if the flight doesn’t originate at your airport
- How many people with positions greater than yours get called early due to disability, status, or family boarding
- How many positions in front of yours are vacant due to changes in plans, late arrivals, or unsold A1-A15 positions
- How many people with positions in front of yours arrive at the gate after your position is called.
That first wildcard is the biggie.
I’m a large person, and do not want to risk a middle seat. With B18, if the flight is a continuation of one that began before I board, I’d buy the upgrade. If it originated at my airport, I might risk it…but I’m OK in both aisle and window seats. If I had to have an aisle seat…buy the upgrade.
(I always do early bird on Southwest, because middle seats are hell, and because I don’t want the stress of fighting for space in the overhead bins.)
It’s a 737-800. It looks like according to seatguru.com the flight originates from my airport. i’m basing that on there being a trip an hour later from my destination airport that it lists as the same flight number.
being position b18 therefore will make me the 78th person to board plus i guess the dipshits who get special boarding for being in a family, which is nonsense to me. there look like there are 59 aisle seats. that might be good enough?
yeah, i need over head for my backpack. it doesn’t fit under the seat. i’ll likely check my luggage otherwise. didn’t think that overhead was a huge premium for southwest though since it is free to check bags.