I bought my first Slappa Backpack last year, and after a couple of months of not carrying much more than my laptop and a book the right hand strap broke. I sent it back to Slappa who, to be fair, apologised and sent me a new one. Unfortunately the new one lasted for only a month. They look great, have loads of compartments, but don't last very long.
 

I bought this backpack to enable me to take my laptop to work whilst using my motorcycle. The description on this website doesn't really do the backpack credit, not only does the bag comfortably store my 17" laptop and all ancillaries. It also has sufficient space for 2 (carefully folded) suits, shirt and a pair of shoes! I used Spyder Laptop Backpack in "anger" for the first time today, my 160 mile ride to London was accompanied by an almost constant rain shower. Having used 3 different brands of "waterproof" motorcycle backpacks before I wasn't particularly confident that either my laptop or clothes would be in any condition to use on my arrival at work. My concerns were soon to be dispelled, after 2 1/2 hours riding through rain everything contained within the backpack was dry, which is more than I could say for myself! The backpack is very well made and represents extremely good value for money.
 

I have had a variety of Laptop bags over the past 10 years I have been humping assorted laptops all over the country. So when the newest Slappa Backpack arrived here, I did a transfer of my gear from my current shoulder bag to this new BackPack. I was concerned when I got it, as I initially thought it did not have enough pockets, well I was not disappointed as the interior compartments provided adequate room for all my gear including my 17 inch laptop and giant power supply I am back in college and having 2 very thick textbooks this term, I have been carrying them in a separate bag up to this point, and I smiled when the both went into the auxiliary compartment with room to spare. Every BackPack I have ever had the laptop has always been crowded, and even though the other bag designers have said they would handle a specific size laptop they seem to always be to small, and I was always worried that the edge of the laptop was gonna get smacked, with the Slappa BackPack you are not going to have to worry about that even with a 17 inch notebook, it fit perfectly and the restraining strap locked it in place with lots of padding around on all edges. Now when some of my co-workers saw the bag they all had to come over and check it out and were pretty impressed. The bag has enough design elements to be really popular with the 30 and under crowd yet at the same time conservative enough for people my age I did not get any strange looks when coming into the office with it. The word out of my kids mouth though was dad can I have that bag? I do think they found a good balance in design. One concern I must say the picture of the bag on the Slappa home website does not do it justice, the website shows the spider design to be real bright which to me would be a negative if I had never seen it, the spider design is not bright and that is the reason I want to point it out. Seeing the bag under natural light the spider design blends in naturally. Now here is a cool feature, want to carry a bottle of water or something you want to keep cool or super dry? On the backside it has a full length pocket with what appears to be a water resistant plastic lining, Slappa calls it a stay cool lining this is a feature I have never seen before, which increased the versatility and coolness factor of the bag. It is great value, the zippers are high quality and the material is going to weather very well, straps have enough padding to be comfortable over a single shoulder.