Hey TG, is that one of the bags from Steep and Cheap? Not Timbuk2 but whatever the other brand was... I was curious if they had a stabilizer cross-strap, they didn't mention anything about it on the page and I never got a chance to look it up. It looks from your pictures that they do.

I'm in the market for a new bag that will possibly hold my laptop (a 15" MacBook Pro), but most of the time will just carry my clothes and stuff to/from work. For a while they had Timbuk2 bags on Steep and Cheap but I'm not a huge fan of pink and I don't want anything too big.

I've carried my husband's bag with his laptop in it (he has a 17" Dell, which weighs 5 lbs more than my laptop and is bigger, I was playing sherpa). It was nearly impossible without the strap AND the shoulder straps could not be made short enough for shorties like myself. Turns out I made it so short that he thinks it's great now, but it's still too long for me.