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Targus Zip-Thru laptop bag

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The good: Well-padded laptop compartment; may speed your way through airport-security checkpoints.

The bad: The TSA agent may force you to take your laptop out anyway; not a particularly attractive bag; less roomy than it looks.

The bottom line: Targus takes its familiar Corporate Traveler line and adds a butterfly-style zipper to the Targus Zip-Thru, hopefully aiding your way through airport security checkpoints.

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  • CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars Excellent
    Detailed editors' rating
      Design : 8.0
      Features : 9.0
      Performance : 0.0
      Service and support : 0.0
      Overall score: 8.5 (4.0 stars)
  • Reviewed on: 09/22/2008
  • Released on: 09/15/2008

Air travel--while a requirement of modern life for many--has become, at best, a barely tolerable experience that tests the patience of even the zen-like commuter. The chokepoint most likely to raise one's blood pressure is the infamous security checkpoint, with its required shedding of shoes and belts, and, of course, the oft-repeated admonition to remove one's laptop from its case.

Hoping to spare you at least a few seconds of frustration, the TSA has helpfully provided laptop-case makers with some official guidelines for creating laptop cases that can go through the X-ray machine with a laptop still inside. One of the first examples we've seen is the $99 Targus Zip-Thru Corporate Traveler.

The basic concept is to allow the X-ray machine to get a clear view of the laptop, without anything else in the way, such as keys, power adapters, or iPods. Like other bags modeled on the TSA guidelines, the Targus Zip-Thru unzips into two distinct halves: one for your laptop (and nothing but), and one for everything else you carry. A third zipper sits between the two compartments; when unzipped, the bag splits open butterfly style, so it can lay flat on the X-ray machine's conveyor belt.

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