In August 2021, we asked the staff of the verge to tell us about their go-to laptop bags. Now, some are still using the same bags – but not all.

A bag that can accommodate everything on your’got ta have this’ list can help you avoid a lot of aggravation.

This year’s staff picks include some old, some new bags. Most of the staff wrote about their backpacks. We’ve added a few different types of bags.

I got a large Timbuk2 messenger bag in 2015 after wearing out a few smaller options from fancier brands. It’s comfortable, low-profile, fairly affordable, and has a big main compartment with as many little sub-pockets as I could ever want I like it so much that I feel like I must have struck an unwitting Faustian bargain with a trickster God.