For some laptop bags are a fashion statement, but for most guys what we want is functional and masculine. We want a laptop bag that won’t be mistaken for a ladies purse or anything other than a manly place to hold our manly gadgets. Give us a big bag in primary colors, no frilly pastels or wild color schemes. Guys want simple, utilitarian a man’s bag, the sort of bag you could take hunting and not get mocked by your friends for carrying. Ladies if you happened upon this list of manly bags, do your man a favor if you are shopping for him and choose one of these and not the dainty ones you might buy for yourself.
This is the king of laptop bags, and boy is it good to be king. Big is the word for this bag, the Brain Bag is made for the man’s man. So the story goes the Brain Bag was concived for a pilot, and what job is manlier than the guy who works all day in a place properly titled the cockpit? The Brain Bag has lots of pockets, pouches, zippers and storage space. Fully loaded this thing could be used to keep your bass boat dockside, yet the well padded shoulder straps won’t leave you having to go to the place men fear the most, the doctor. Not that we are wussy, you just never know when doc will want to check your prostate.
There are few things manlier than carrying a bag made by a company called Moutainsmith. Yeah this bag could be used to scale Everest, without oxygen. If you don’t want the backpack style and prefer a shoulder carried bag this is a good choice with decent storage space, pouches and pockets. Color choices? Who needs color choices? Black was good enough for Johnny Cash and it’s good enough for your laptop bag.
Here we have another satchel style laptop bag that is done in nice masculine colors of black and blue. If you are shopping in the bargain bin for your laptop bag to save more cash for video games to go with your new laptop this may be the bag for you. Not as nice as the other bags, but the price is good and it has gobs of storage space. The orange logo is a bit flashy, but we can let them slide on that one plus if you should take it hunting the logo can pass as safety orange.
If the shoulder style bags are a bit too purse like for you, here we have another backpack style bag that can be had in some manly greens and reds. The coolest part about this bag is that it reminds me of the packs that skydivers have their parachutes in. Nice and aerodynamic, perfect bag to wear as you zoom down the road on your Hayabusa. The light colored interior also makes it easier to find all the crap you toss in there when you are too busy doing other things like checking out the hot lady in the lunch line in front of you.
At first glance you might think with the petite size and orange outline that this bag isn’t so manly. This bag will carry a 15” notebook and hides three solar panels and an internal battery that work like Viagra from your portable electronics, which is to say the Voltaic can keep the batteries on your cell phone or MP3 player up all day, and all night. Plus that name screams manly, Voltaic, sounds like something Nicholas Cage would name his second son (the first will no doubt be Calel). You can also get the bag with black outline as well as other colors if the orange is too liberal for you.
