Matein Backpack Review (Affordable & Functional)

In the busy world we live in today, we are always on the move, and on the move with our technology too. Laptops, tablets, and phones are always with us and when we travel they are essentials that have to come for the ride.

This means we all needed a great travel laptop backpack. A backpack that keeps our tech safe, has enough storage space and is as convenient as possible to travel with.

There are loads of travel laptop backpacks on the market, but most of the good ones are a little bit overpriced if you ask me.

Enter the Matein Travel Laptop Backpack. It has everything you couldn’t want from a travel laptop backpack and some while being affordable. Don’t believe me?

Check out my in-depth review on the Matein travel laptop backpack below and see what you think, it might just be what you have been looking for!

Materials & Durability

Before I start raving about the organizational side of the Matein Travel Laptop Backpack, let’s first take a look at what it is made of and if it is built to last.

Materials

Even with a deep dive into what this travel backpack is made of, the only answer you can find is polyester. There is no reference to denier rating or whether the polyester is coated, it just says polyester.

Polyester is an excellent material for a travel backpack to be made of. It is hard-wearing, naturally water-resistant, and abrasion-resistant. But, it is hard to tell how good it is without a denier rating which denotes thickness.

Durability

One thing I can say is that the main part of the Matein Travel Laptop Backpack is thick and tough. It is a backpack that is built to last and can look as good as new after up to 4 years of use, which is incredible considering the price.

The straps, however, can rip and tear quite quickly in some cases, but this is rare. The metal zippers are reliable too but they can unzip on their own, which can be a little infuriating!

Comfort

So, you have loaded up the Matein Travel Laptop Backpack with everything from your laptop to tablet, phone, laptop accessories, clothes, and travel documents, is it comfortable to carry? Let’s have a look.

Firstly, this laptop backpack only comes with shoulder straps. There is no waist strap or sternum strap, which goes hand in hand with the price, but does this affect comfort?

The back panel is padded for back support and comes with a multi-panel airflow system to ensure that you do not overheat when walking around an airport or to a meeting. The soft multi-panel ventilated padding is excellent.

The straps are adjustable and well padded. For most people, this makes the backpack comfortable to carry around when fully loaded. Some people with larger shoulders may find that the straps are a little thin and dig into them a bit!

If you are traveling with a small suitcase as your carry-on luggage, the handy pass-through luggage strap means you can slide the backpack onto your wheely suitcase. This makes navigating busy places and standing in queues a lot more comfortable.

Finally, the backpack also features a foam padded top handle for grab-and-go situations, like moving through security.

Storage Space & Organization

This is the category where the Matein Travel Laptop Backpack really shines. Let’s take a deeper look!

Storage Space

This is quite a small backpack with just 28 liters of packing space which is spread over 3 compartments. It is very much the perfect size for work and short trips away, it is not a backpack that you can throw everything in for a week away!

It works perfectly alongside a small carry-on suitcase but standing alone, you are going to struggle to squeeze in enough clothes for more than 2 nights away.

Organization

This backpack has more pockets than you can shake a stick at. Let’s work from the back to the front so you can get an idea.

The back compartment is a padded laptop compartment that will hold a 15.6-inch laptop, any size laptop above this, like a gaming laptop will not fit. Inside you will also find a tablet sleeve and you can secure your 15-inch laptop with the velcro strap provided.

Next up is the main compartment which has enough space for clothes, camera gear, headphones, and more, just not too much of them. Here is where you will find the link to the external USB charger port where you can connect a battery pack to the built-in charging cable inside!

Yes, this is a backpack with USB charging. The built-in USB charging port sits on the outside of the backpack and you can plug into the USB charging port to charge your phone or tablet on the go!

The front compartment is an organizational panel with a key fob hook, pen pockets, sleeves for your phone, and space for notebooks too.

Then you have the side pockets which are great water bottle holders and can hold larger reusable bottles too. To top it off, there is a small front stash zipper pocket and an anti-theft pocket built into the back panel which is great for valuables like your passport and wallet.

As you can see there is a pocket for everything in this backpack so keeping your things organized is about as easy as it gets. With smart extra features like a hidden pocket for valuables and a USB port, it is a hard backpack to beat!

Versatility

Versatility is a category where the Matein Travel Laptop Backpack doesn’t do so well, and the reason why is in the name.

The is a bag designed to help you travel with your tech to work or on planes and trains with organizational efficiency. It is incredibly fit for this purpose but it is not made for much else.

If you were to take this bag hiking and it rained, everything would get wet. It is not waterproof, and while the polyester fabric is water-repellent, the seams and zippers are not. Water will seep in with ease.

Overall these bags are great to travel and commute with but not much else. This is fine with us as that is exactly what they are made to do.

Value For Money

When it comes to value for money, these backpacks are honestly hard to beat. The retail price is just $30, which is about as affordable as backpacks get these days, but, you are getting a load more with this one.

Between having a compartment or pocket for everything to being a backpack with USB charging, an anti-theft pocket, that is comfy to carry, and made from durable tear-resistant polyester, it is an absolute bargain at this incredible price.

Rating

The Matein Travel Laptop Backpack has done pretty well on our rating system getting a score of 76/100.

The only place where it lost some points was in the storage and versatility category.

Having zips that unzip by themselves will get annoying and it is a laptop backpack for travel through and through, it is not for any other adventures.

Verdict

Overall, we love the Matein Travel Laptop Backpack as it comes with everything a travel laptop backpack should have, and for an amazingly affordable price.

To be so affordable and have the features of a backpack that costs 4 times as much is pretty amazing.

Between the organizational system, multiple compartments, and more pockets than you can bother to count, to the padded back panel, solid straps, and durable build, it is very hard to beat.

The only downside is that the affordability does give rise to some quality issues like the zippers undoing on their own, straps fraying on occasion, limited space for clothes, and it not being so versatile.

But, for $30, all of these are things we can happily live with!

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