Timbuk2 San Francisco: Timbuk2 makes bags for Northern California urbanites. They build
sleek, durable, and fad-proof, usually in muted colors that hide stains
well. Their laptop bags are designed to carry the essentials of a
day out
in the City -- water, a laptop and charger, some books or notepads, a
smart phone, a few pens, a hoodie, and a snack -- and to withstand the
City's sticky-gritty abuses, like absorbing biker sweat, being stuffed
under a BART seat, waiting on the beer-stained floor under a bar stool,
and baking/soaking/abrading at Burningman.
Glaser Designs: San Francisco-based makes beautiful and super-functional laptop bags to order for "executive travelers," which I think means rich people who spend a lot of time on planes.
Patagonia: With Ventura-based Patagonia, you
get what you pay for. What you pay is a
lot. What you get is exactly what you
want. Patagonia’s gear and clothing
looks great, it works perfectly, and it is manufactured as ethically and
sustainably as reasonably possible. I do
not yet own a Patagonia laptop bag. But
I do own a broad cross-section Patagonia clothing and gear, all of which may
very well last me forever.

Zeyner Baldwin
Park-based Zeyner makes briefcases for rock stars. These
double-take-inducing, highly functional bags are constructed from
chrome, motorcycle-jacket leather, and motorcycle-tire-tread
rubber, all triple stitched together by someone who wanted this bag to
last forever under all circumstances.
Marcopolini:
Campbell-based Marcopolini imports high-quality, hand-made leather goods from
Italy, including laptop bags. I own a
Marcopolini key wallet (which, for those who don’t know, is a keychain that
stows your keys inside a coin-purse-like wallet, so your keys don’t punch holes
in your pockets). It is extremely well
made, and its leather keeps looking better as it ages.
DODOcase: San
Francisco-based DODOcase makes muted, well-constructed-looking (I've
never seen one myself, but they look nice on the website), functional
things in which to put other things, including laptop cases.
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