A Carry Bag

While you may not have thought a lot about the bag that you use to carry your equipment. It can be a very important consideration especially if you are going to be moving around with your portable office a lot.

If you do have the full portable office, including a laptop, potable printer, portable projector, and extended battery’s or solar panels.  You can have quite a full carry bag. So looking for a bag that can carry all of these items, without causing you to many problems can at times be a challenge. There are a number of points to look at

• Store Everything – It is well worth knowing exactly what you are going to be taking with you before purchasing a bag. It is not a great idea to go and buy a bag to carry your laptop specifically without paying thought to the portable printer you are also going to need frequently.
• Easy to Carry – While if you do have a full featured portable office, you may not always be carrying your bag, but taking it into consideration is important. At times you may even only need to lift it out of the car or up and down stairs, but the way this is done can be an important consideration.
• Wheels – As opposed to carrying your bag for your portable office, you may prefer to be able to pull it along, on wheels of course. Take a close look at the wheels, to be sure they are going to be able to handle frequent use and in your opinion be able to last based on what you expect to be carrying around with you.
• Ability to secure – As a mobile worker, there is a chance that you are going to be traveling. Being able to secure your laptop, and other accessories when traveling is important. While you may not be able to avoid someone taking your bag, the ability to stop people from getting into your bag is something you will want to look at. Zips with the ability put in a padlock, or security seal of sorts.

When i went looking for a carry bag for my portable office, i made the move to actually look at small luggage or over night bags. Some are designed as a split laptop/overnight luggage bag, however this is easy to just use entirely for your office. So don’t think that you have to buy the carry bag that the sales guy is trying to sell you when you buy your laptop, take a look at other stores such as travel good and bag stores. You may be surprised at versatile some bags can be.