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The second handiest compartment is a 16-inch laptop sleeve accessible by a zipper running along Rhake’s left side, which nixes the need to unravel the full Rhake to pull out your MacBook. That’s a 9.7-inch iPad, which fits fine in this upper pocket without a case. If you’re planning on using this bag as a daily carry, you’ll likely use this pocket more than any other.

The main exception is the zippered 10 x 10-inch compartment near the top, which has more than enough room to hold sunglasses, AirPods, chargers, and other items I reach for on a daily basis. Plenty of other pockets burrow into the Rhake’s sides, but getting stuff out of them can sometimes be a pain.

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It’s a big “secret” compartment, too: You can put a 15-inch MacBook Pro in here and still have plenty of room left over. If that doesn’t convince you the Rhake takes its mission seriously, then nothing will. And there’s more! Along the back of this hole waits the holy of holies: a zippered 18-5-inch weatherproof compartment hiding within the weatherproof main cavity. It’s kind of thin, but I can stuff so many things in here that I sometimes forget what lies at the bottom, and photographers will like Mission Workshop’s $130 “Capsule” for cameras that neatly fits inside this space. Unravel the rolltop (which you can hold in place with either a velcro panel or a hook for speed), and you’ll see the weatherproof fabric reaching to the depths of the cavernous 25-inch main compartment. The Rhake’s zeal for weatherproofing extends beyond the exterior. The straps feature Mission Workshop’s “Archiv” band that let you attach other accessories if you need more space. The exceptions are few, but they include the mesh sleeve that lets you slip the Rhake over your luggage’s extendable handles and the padding for the back and shoulder straps. Much of the bag has two layers of this stuff, and you’ll find it in all the seven compartments, including the deep main cavity. When water hits it, it sounds like those rain-at-the-campsite relaxation tracks. Like a big of chips, it crinkles with every move. The model I received was actually the $455 Rhake VX model, which is made from even tougher VX-21 ripstop fabric. So weatherproof is the Rhake’s tough 500d nylon fabric, in fact, that you might think it was crafted from the same tarp used for heavy tents. It’s worth it in the right circumstances. The Rhake can weather a storm, but with its $365 starting price tag Remove non-product link, you’ll want to make sure your bank account can weather a beating before picking one up. The only catch is that sometimes its design interferes with its convenience. So let’s get that out of the way: If you want a bag that lets MacBooks giggle at hurricanes-this is it, chief. But when I unrolled the Rhake at home, I found everything inside as dry as a Steven Wright routine. Water seeped into uncomfortable crevasses in my jeans. In this manner I braved a deluge for several blocks toward the train station, armed with nothing besides the Rhake and a trashy umbrella. (I was already impressed that it could hold all this junk.) Beyond that, I stuffed it with my AirPods, my iPhone, my Bose QuietComfort 35s, a jacket, a book, and even a Satechi keyboard. I tossed in my expensive 15-inch MacBook Pro along with our iPad Pro and another MacBook.

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