Hey commuters, don't just fly Solo.

With all due respect to Solo’s marketing team, their flight-centered pitch for this bag is way outside. Yeah, its easy-to-separate laptop compartment is “checkpoint-friendly” and “Travel Sentry approved” and all that, so you can supposedly go through security without taking the laptop out. But as we all know, following general TSA guidelines and actually dealing with live TSA agents are two different things. Plus, even if someone flies twice a month all year round, how much time in total are they really saving by using this bag? Twenty minutes? One or two disputes with a TSA gate agent could eat that up. Also kind of nifty is the handle that fits over the telescoping handle on a roller bag for easier dashes through the airport, but again, how often will you use it?

What we have here is actually a pretty good day-to-day commuter bag, even if that commute never leaves the ground. It’s light, it’s compact, it’s got plenty of pockets for your little whatnots. Whether you’re packed into a city bus or being chauffeured in a Bentley, Jony Ive-style, you need something to carry your laptop and stuff in. This cleverly engineered Solo bag makes so much of its slim profile, it’s like strapping a Tardis over your shoulder. You don’t have to fly to appreciate that.

We get why Solo went that direction: there are lots of laptop bags out there, and everybody hates taking their laptop through the checkpoint at the airport, so why not use that angle to rise above the herd? The problem is, like most of the annoyances of air travel, the whining is out of proportion to the actual damage done. It may annoy us to take our laptops out, but almost none of us are really going to drop coin on a whole new bag because of it.

The flying-focused “CheckFast” marketing was good for one thing, though: depressing sales to the point where we can offer you this price on a good laptop bag for your trip to and from work. What mode of transportation you take is up to you.