Alienware Orion Backpack

[Tristan]

Alienware Orion Backpack

The Alienware Orion Backpack keeps all your Alienware gear secure and protected on the go.

The backpack's heavily-padded, subdivided main compartment easily holds up to two 17-inch notebooks. A secondary compartment contains an mp3 player pocket with headphone outlet, mouse holder, and ten other pockets from pens to CDs to plane tickets. It even features an RF-shielded cell phone pocket so your ringer never goes off at the wrong time. Four more pockets on the front sides of the backpack, including two mesh pouches, are ideal for carrying water bottles or other miscellaneous gear

The thick padded straps are ergonomically designed for comfort while the ventilated back panel helps keep you cool. Of course, the black chrome Alien head on the front of the bag lets everyone know its an Alienware


Dimensions:
20.25 Inches Tall
15.5 Inches Wide
7.5 Inches Thick

Colors:
Black mesh all over
Front compartment is a black matte plastic finish.
Alien Head logo is a solid metal button almost. Clearly very easily scratched.


Weight:
2.92 pounds

Outside
The outside of the front compartment of the Alienware Orion Backpack is covered by a soft plastic material. It has the same feel as the plastic used on the Razer Mamba mouse. The shield as I call it, is very smooth and an absolute particle magnet. Literally every small loose scrap of paper will attach itself to it. I’m constantly brushing crumbs and such off of it. Dent’s are also created easily, but come out just as easy so it’s nothing to worry about.
The nine zippers that adorn the backpack are all the same size, weight, and material. A very lightweight soda-tab sized zipper is crested with the Alien Head logo. No flex whatsoever and have yet to be scratched.
The bottom has two feet for grip when placed upright. On the left hand side, when looking at the logo side, the water bottle pouch is tucked away (took me a week to find it ).

The weight distribution of this backpack is just amazing, though looking at the straps you would not think that. The shoulder straps are made of thin lightweight foam material. They are wider than the average the strap and that may well have something to do with its orthopedic feel. The back pads are where the real comfort lies. One inch thick pillows support your back along your oblique’s and Latissimus dorsi, and lower back region. Holding twenty pounds of weight in the backpack in one hand, feels like nothing when put on your back.
The phone compartment is removable. It can hold an EnV2 and Blackberry Storm snuggly. Two packs of Orbit gum as well
My only gripe is with the handle on top. It is much longer than most handles and flops around. It hits the back of my neck whenever I lean forward and is like someone slapping my neck.

First Compartment
So the outside compartment is the most lavish pocket I have seen in a while. On one side, there are ten CD pockets and a key ring. Not many people carry around CD’s anymore, let alone barenaked CD’s like that, so I’ll just put in some one hundred dollar bills as placeholders
Opposite this side, your laptop accessories are held; a writing utensil pouch, a padded zippered chamber for holding MP3 players at the top, a zippered mesh pouch at the bottom, and a very protective mouse case in the center. The pouch fits my Mamba perfectly, with just enough space for the cable. However the Mamba dock does not fit to my liking here, so I hold it in the main compartment.



Middle Compartment
The second compartment is very simple. The side closer to the shield has a space wide enough for two Asus EEpc notebooks, or five college-ruled notepads.
On the otherside of the compartment, there is a mesh pocket wide and tall enough to hold two magazines without bulging.


Main Compartment
The main compartment of the back is quite large; the size of the entire backpack, it has a single mesh/plastic filmed pocket with the text:”Checkpoint Friendly”. That’s just for frequent flyers whose bags are opened often. The sides of this pouch are fleece covered.


As a comparison for how large it actually is:

That's five one hundred page notebooks, three novels, a graphing calculator, a thirteen hundred page SAT book, a fork(i forgot to take it out), a seventy page thick passbook, a deck of cards, and some cash. My normal carryings. I'm 6'2", so the backpack is surprisingly compact.

This backpack is available from(at the time of this post):
Amazon $64.99(There is something funky going on with their pictures)
Newegg $69.99
Dell $99.99



Pictures with the M17x(I had a window to do two M17x's but I forgot )

If you have any other questions feel free to ask, and I hoped you enjoyed the read.

[CaptainMorgan]

Thanks for all the pics! I really want to get this, but I'm beginning to feal like a fanboy. I got them to throw in the two t-shirts when they botched up my tactx mouse, which I have now worn to class; but getting this bag may make me a nerd forever :P But it looks so damn cool! I think you may have made me make up my mind...

[tonytoff]

I can see why you would feel embarrassed after wearing the 2 t-shirts to class....you could be mistaken for a fanboy.
Mind you there are worse things to be a fan of.

[Letdewookiewin]

I thought about the Orion but decided to buy a bag from another company, Mainly because i wanted a custom embroidery done on it. Went from pure black to pure Anime/video game nerdage

[nodeffect]

Does anyone has it ?

I have a M17 laptop and a Zalman ZM-NC2000 cooler. Do you think I can put both my laptop and the cooler inside the backpack and will there still be some extra space for me to put my Power brick adapter and maybe a mouse too ?

Thanks.... need answer urgent cuz I will be going to Malaysia next month...

[misterb]

Originally Posted by nodeffect

Does anyone has it ?

I have a M17 laptop and a Zalman ZM-NC2000 cooler. Do you think I can put both my laptop and the cooler inside the backpack and will there still be some extra space for me to put my Power brick adapter and maybe a mouse too ?

Thanks.... need answer urgent cuz I will be going to Malaysia next month...

Wow you're taking your m17 to malaysia, I'm going to indonesia in september and that's the reason why I bought the m11x. Portability and battery life ftw

[Letdewookiewin]

I dont know but Check out timbuk2.com they have Laptop backpacks and messangers and they have the sizes and max laptop size in W+H+D inches and CM. i got a messenger back from them that fits computer, mouse, brick and 3-4 of my class books with room to spare.

[Letdewookiewin]

Here i was bored and went looking for you.
according to the description the 1 compartment can hold 2 17 INch laptops so thats like 2 MBP prolly lol doubt its 4.2" of 2 X m17xness

anyways theres Dimensions and such in this link
http://accessories.dell.com/sna/Popu...e=100#Overview

[nodeffect]

wow, so helpful.... thanks a lot man.... +rep

[Tristan]

Really? You couldn't scroll down half a page?
Alienware Orion Backpack