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Running Backpack for laptop

  • 19-11-2017 05:43PM
    #1
    Paddy1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭


    Hi All

    Does anyone run to work with their laptop on their back? I wonder could you recommend a good bag that would be good for this. I wouldn't be bringing much else so it will be just the laptop really but want it to feel as light as possible.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Paddy1234 wrote: »
    Hi All

    Does anyone run to work with their laptop on their back? I wonder could you recommend a good bag that would be good for this. I wouldn't be bringing much else so it will be just the laptop really but want it to feel as light as possible.

    Thanks

    It's not the best idea in the world to run with a laptop especially if it's a HDD, might be marginally ok if it's an SSD.
    Do you have an option to access a company sharepoint and OWA instead?

    If you really need to, back up your data regularly and get a small pack with chest and hip straps, something like the Deuter 8 or 10, these also have an air bridge to let air circulate at your back.


  • #3
    Paddy1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭Paddy1234


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    It's not the best idea in the world to run with a laptop especially if it's a HDD, might be marginally ok if it's an SSD.
    Do you have an option to access a company sharepoint and OWA instead?

    If you really need to, back up your data regularly and get a small pack with chest and hip straps, something like the Deuter 8 or 10, these also have an air bridge to let air circulate at your back.

    Thanks for that - how do I know if it's an SSD? It's a Dell Latitude laptop. Thanks


  • #4
    Singer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭Singer


    I've commuted between Dublin City Centre and Swords 200+ times in the last two years with a Macbook Air in a bag on my back. I currently use a Deuter SpeedLite 20, which is comfortable and holds the laptop pretty securely, though the bag is starting to fall apart a little. One of my laptops did mysteriously stop working last year. While it didn't die immediately after running home I suspect that the running had something to do with it.

    The shaking wouldn't be great for a non-SSD hard disk alright. To find out what type of hard drive you have, google something like: https://www.google.ie/search?q=how+to+tell+you+have+an+SSD+in+Windows


  • #5
    Down South
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Down South


    Paddy1234 wrote:
    Thanks for that - how do I know if it's an SSD? It's a Dell Latitude laptop. Thanks

    Paddy1234 wrote:
    Thanks for that - how do I know if it's an SSD? It's a Dell Latitude laptop. Thanks


    If it takes a while to boot up and makes a whirring noise it's a hdd


  • #6
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Down South wrote: »
    If it takes a while to boot up and makes a whirring noise it's a hdd

    Especially after 30 mins tempo :pac:


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