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The year is 2005 and I have a massive problem to solve \u2014 transporting a Dell laptop that weighs more than Thor’s hammer.<\/p>\n

I was a university lecturer at the time, and my employer had generously provided me with the notebook PC.<\/p>\n

The machine was sturdy, seldom gave me problems, and came with a great service plan \u2014 but it was heavy. Really heavy.<\/p>\n

The university had also given me a shoulder bag to carry the laptop in, which looked professional and had ample space for books and lecture notes. However, it only had a single shoulder strap.<\/p>\n

When I left my office at the end of the day, there would inevitably be a colleague waiting outside, eager to strike up a conversation about the latest happenings at the university.<\/p>\n

If I was really unlucky, there would also be a student or two ready to ambush me with questions about my lectures or upcoming assignments.<\/p>\n

While they talked, my shoulder slowly started to burn as it carried the weight of the hefty Dell. It would become unbearable, and I would swap the bag to my other shoulder.<\/p>\n

Within a minute, that shoulder was done, and I would have to put my bag down on the floor \u2014 the universal sign for “please continue to talk as much as you want; I have lots of free time”.<\/p>\n

Bring on the backpack<\/h3>\n

I could not carry on like this, so I purchased a Targus Campus backpack.<\/p>\n

It was not stylish and looked more suited to one of my students than a lecturer, but I did not care.<\/p>\n

Two straps distributing the weight of that Dell laptop over both shoulders and my upper back was pure bliss. I could stand, walk, and run away from question-filled students with ease and in comfort.<\/p>\n

Besides the occasional look when I went into a meeting (as a backpack does not scream “take this man seriously”) there were no downsides.<\/p>\n

And so I continued to use it as my primary laptop bag \u2014 even when I upgraded from the Dell to more modern machines.<\/p>\n

It has now been 17 years since I purchased the Targus Campus backpack and it is still going strong.<\/p>\n

My wife recently tried to give me a new Targus laptop bag as a birthday present, and I had to diplomatically tell her my backpack was not going anywhere.<\/p>\n

It’s almost two decades old and in excellent condition \u2014 not a loose stitch or a broken clip.<\/p>\n

This makes my Targus Campus bag the best “tech product” I have ever bought.<\/p>\n

Below is a photo of my current bag and the new bag, side by side. You be the judge.<\/p>\n

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Well, it’s more a “tech accessory” \u2014 but either way it is definitely the highest quality, most durable thing I’ve ever owned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35,68330,78914],"class_list":["post-447794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-targus","tag-targus-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447816,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447794\/revisions\/447816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}