The Mountain Hardwear Sing Slingpack ($90 list) is a stylish, egg-shaped, compact sling pack for laptops, tailored for women on the go. Equipped with a compression-molded foam back panel, and an adjustable padded sling strap for an easy over-the-shoulder motion, the Slingpack was just able to fit my 14-inch IBM ThinkPad T41 snugly into the well-protected laptop compartment. This backpack might be better suited to carry systems with smaller screens, like netbooks.

The Sing Slingpack weighs in at 1 pound 3 ounces, with an 850-cubic-inch capacity. Aside from the laptop sleeve, it has a decent internal compartment space (though you won't be able to carry a lot of books around), and a simple internal organizer—two open pockets and one zipped. On the outside is a larger central zip pocket, two smaller side pockets, and a long mesh pocket on the shoulder strap.

The Sing Slingpack was definitely designed to be efficient: My clamshell cell phone fit into one of the smaller side pockets, though it likely couldn't hold an iPhone or other smartphone. The other pocket is probably big enough only for change, a transit card or perhaps an iPod nano. I'm still trying to figure out what can fit in the pocket on the shoulder strap.—Continue reading on Gearlog.com >

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