Peak Design Travel Backpack 45L vs The North Face Kaban

That's really great for getting the pack into side access mode while you're wearing it, as well as hiding the strap system, which we'll get into in a ...

This backpack is far more comfortable. It is an attractive, low profile pack and a fraction of the price a leather pack would be. The pack is comfortable to wear. My laptop has 15" screen and it comfortably and securely fits

It's going to stand up to a lot. If you're throwing it in and out of taxis you're taking to airports buses, then it's It's going to stand up to the pu...

So with all that being said, let's go ahead and jump in starting off with the outside of the bag. I really like the overall aesthetic like the origina...

There is however, an elephant in the room that should be a deal breaker for every sane traveler - this bag is unforgivably uncomfortable to carry; and as that is the core function of a travel bag, I struggle to understand why so many people just gloss over it. It’s brilliant, amazing, oh and it’s a brick that carry’s like someone loaded 70kg into a Kanken and made you carry it. No amount of awesome design and fabulous ergonomics can cover it up - it’s big, heavy and completely over priced.

Hard to say it's not quite big enough to fit a well, at least not any modern-day cellphones in there. Maybe an old flip phone can fit in there. And it...

- The lash straps are super handy. I used them to lash an extra coat to the outside of the pack.

The webbing is a little bit skinnier too,, which matches a bag of this size. You Really don't need a ton to keep that sternum strap on and intact on y...

I've also tried the Peak Design Travel backpack - no good, way too big to be a hiking / day pack and not robust enought to check in for me. Also tried packing a standard hiking pack in my main bag, but this takes up a lot of room, as well as offering no Photography based integrated features. If you guys have any thoughts on the above bags, or any suggestions at all that would be greatly appreciated. I'm driving myself around the bend trying to find this perfect bag that I'm afraid doesn't exist

Of course you get the sternum strap right here. Most people don't use that and they're walking in at cities, but you have that. You're hiking in the m...

Use the front access to get into what we call the organization panel in here. You've got a handful of separately zippered pockets and these pockets ba...

We're starting at number 10, working our way up to number One. Let's dive in. [music] Kicking off with the 10th most popular bag according to you with...

You've got buttons that sort of snap this thing into place a little tough. There we go, and that sort of makes it a little slimmer of a profile. So th...

Have a look: it's just one big empty, empty storage component. There yeah there's really no other internal organization here, but what's really good t...

So honestly, I think this is one major design flaw in the peak design 45 liter although I think it is also outweighed by the streamlined design and al...

[This is a good of the older one. * 26L, large bucket opening, half clamshell 2nd pocket, water bottle holders on both sides and a 3rd external pocket for quick access. * Outside is made of same material as North Face Base Camp Duffels, so durable but not quite as ugly as the Patagonia black hole stuff