Osprey Farpoint 40 vs Black Ember Forge

They do have a slightly smaller version that is closer to 38 Weir's and I Feel like this offers plenty of space for traveling for many weeks on end, a...

That goes the same for a water bottle. Unless you have a memo model, you might be able to fit this in really well, but for typical round, cylindrical ...

I wanted to like this bag, and there are some things I do like, but the laptop compartment is a huge miss for me. I was looking for a pack to take with me to Borneo for 3 weeks. I managed to almost fit (but not) everything I wanted in to it, but it was like a stuffed sausage in the main compartment and a turtle overall. The small upper pocket worked well to hold my liquids, but what the heck could I put in the two sectioned laptop sleeve pocket? There are no small compartments, just a large zippered one and a large Velcro laptop one

While I think this is pretty true, I’ll mention the black ember forge has a big chonk of a laptop compartment.

Zippers and pockets are well designed. Spot for my iPad. Bottle/can holders on the outside. Excellent, padded hip belt for distributing weight

It's not like you're gon na be getting it in and out and in and out of the zipper garage, yeah. So we'll say: that's! Okay, all right! We'Re gon na pu...

Getting it on, I could not see the straps AT ALL. If I did not have a traveling companion I am not sure I would have gotten it on. I would have required a mirror. Once on the hip straps did their job and kept the weight off my shoulders

It's not an unboxing, it's an unbagging. The straps are hidden in here. Oh, we're gonna have some fun getting in it up. Alright, alright alright okay ...

The smaller top pocket is perfect for your TSA liquid bag or throwing in the contents of your pants pockets before sending it through the x-ray machine. I do TSA Precheck so I don't have to take out my liquids, but leaving from other countries, liquids do have to come out so this pocket is handy. When leaving the US, put my wallet, cellphone and watch in the pocket so they're not in plain sight to temps any sticky fingers. The current model has more of a low key logo of just the bird and Osprey wording, not what the picture Amazon shows

Usually this is one of my pet peeves because with simple front compartments or the lack of slots and compartments in a vertical direction, all of your...