YTONET Journal

Four pieces: which to buy between a rolling laptop bag and a rolling backpack, what a laptop sleeve does at an airport lane and what it does not, what a teacher packs on a Monday and how a rolling bag takes it, and the arithmetic of a bag that has to fit an overhead bin. The sources behind every checkpoint and carry-on statement are listed on how we update the catalogue.

A black 15.6-inch rolling backpack on two wheels at a street corner in the financial district, handle up

Wheels, and the route they roll on · 8 min read

Rolling laptop bag or rolling backpack: which one for your route

Both take the laptop off your shoulder and put it on wheels, and people buy the wrong one for the same reason every time: they choose by the bag and not by the route. Where the stairs are, how long the corridor is, whether there is a kerb between the car and the door, and whether the bag has to be worn for any part of the day is what decides it.

A black and cream teacher tote riding on the handle of a white suitcase at an airport gate

The lane, the bin and the zip · 7 min read

What a laptop sleeve does at airport security, and what it does not

A sleeve that opens flat is sold as a way through a checkpoint, and the claim needs unpacking. What TSA asks for in a standard lane, what changes with PreCheck, why the zip that opens to a hundred and eighty degrees matters for the thirty seconds at the bin and not for the officer, and what to do with the ice pack in the lunch carrier.

A black and cream 15.6-inch rolling laptop bag with its matching tote, outside a shop front

The load, itemised · 8 min read

What a teacher packs on a Monday, and how a rolling bag takes it

A laptop, a charger, two binders of marked work, a lunch, a water bottle, a coffee, a pencil case and a pair of indoor shoes: the Monday load of a teacher weighed and laid out, and where each thing rides in a rolling teacher bag so that nothing is on a shoulder between the car park and the classroom door.

A black quilted rolling backpack with brown trim on a cobbled street, with the matching backpack beside it

Height plus width plus depth · 7 min read

The arithmetic of an overhead bin: 45 linear inches, and what fits

The FAA gives one figure for most airlines, 45 linear inches, and every airline then sets its own. What the figure means, how to add up a rolling bag with its wheels and handle, why a garment duffel measured folded is a different bag from the same duffel measured open, and which of our bags go over your head and which go under the seat.

Every size, every wheel

Every rolling bag, backpack, sleeve, tote, duffel and caddy in the YTONET range sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.