The mission of this collapsible nylon duffel, which measures 18 inches long by 12 inches tall by 11 inches across, is implied by its name. Small enough to fit in an overhead bin, the Laptop Weekender is capacious enough to hold a few days of clothes as well as most of the gadgets you're likely to take on a road trip: a 15-inch (or, of course, smaller) laptop, a mobile phone, an iPad, power adapters, and cables.

The easiest way to grasp the design of this bag is to view it as two storage systems. The inside main compartment is for your clothes and personal items; the outside pockets are for your gear.

The inside is, as mentioned, large enough to hold a couple of pairs of pants, three or four t-shirts, a long weekend's worth of unmentionables and socks, a not-terribly-bulky sweater or hoodie, a pair of shoes, and a ditty bag. There are two pockets inside large enough to hold one toe-down shoe each.

The outside has one pocket on each side. The one that bears the company logo) is for accessories like cables, your mobile phone, a portable hard drive, and a small notebook. Inside this pocket, making it easier to keep loose cables under control is a zippered, mesh compartment.

Flip the bag around to the other side and you find the pocket for holding your laptop. This pocket is better padded and carries what the company terms Bumper Bars. These are strips of additional padding that protect the sides and bottom of the laptop. This padding is particularly helpful on the bottom, where a laptop might take a nasty shot if you drop the bag. Included with my bag was a hunk of gray foam that might have been intended to keep the bag rigid during shipment. I've elected to leave that foam in the laptop compartment to provide even more protection as I'd feel better knowing that my MacBook Air has the extra layer.