Carry-On Bags with a Laptop Pocket

Leather carry-on bags with a dedicated padded laptop compartment, for men and women. One bag through security, not a roller and a laptop bag on your other shoulder.

Look for a carry-on with a laptop pocket and you get a wall of plastic hardshells, most of them with a laptop pocket bolted to the front. Not here. Every bag in the Von Baer range is full-grain leather with the laptop compartment built in, always with you, always protected.

Full-grain leather takes on character as you travel, where a polycarbonate shell only picks up scuffs and scratches. And with no logo stamped across the side, the bag looks like yours when you set it down in a meeting, not like an advertisement for someone else. Every bag here is part of our logo-free travel range.

Von Baer Carry-on Laptop Bags. Designed For The Professional Aesthetic.

A carry-on bag with a laptop pocket has one job: hold your clothes and your laptop in a single bag that still passes as cabin baggage. Every bag in this range shares a few design choices.

Your laptop travels protected inside the same bag you packed, so you stop carrying two.

Every bag in this range has a dedicated padded laptop compartment, sized anywhere from 14 inches up to a full 17-inch machine. It is the thing plain leather travel bags leave out: the laptop sits in its own padded slot instead of sliding around against your shoes, and it travels inside the one carry-on you already lifted into the overhead. No second bag on your other shoulder, no separate sleeve to remember at the gate.

Full-grain leather looks better in year five, where a plastic shell only looks worse.

We use full-grain leather, the top layer of the hide with its grain left intact, and it builds a patina as it travels: it softens, it darkens at the handles, it takes on the marks of where you have been. A polycarbonate shell does the reverse, scuffing and hairlining with use until a hard enough knock cracks it for good.

It fits the cabin size limit and still looks right when you walk into the meeting.

Each bag is built to a carry-on or under-seat personal-item size, with the dimensions listed on every product page so you can check it against your own airline before you buy. There is no logo plate and no printed wordmark anywhere on the outside. The only initials on the bag are the ones you choose to add.

Nothing built in that dates or fails before the leather does.

You will not find a battery, a USB port or a clip-off magnetic sleeve on any of these bags. Those parts date, they fail, and they turn a bag you meant to keep for years into last season's gadget. We leave them out on purpose and put the effort into the leather, the stitching and the signature hardware instead, then stand behind the bag with a 5-Year Limited Warranty.

Want a wider range? See our leather laptop travel bags.

Von Baer Laptop Carry-ons. Perfect for Working On The Go.

Choosing from the Von Baer range comes down to how you move through an airport, how big your laptop is and how long you are traveling for.

If you would rather roll your bag than carry it, the wheeled Voyager is the only one here on wheels. Four spinner wheels and a two-stage telescoping handle take the weight off your shoulder entirely, a padded compartment holds a laptop up to 16 inches, and a front pocket keeps your laptop and boarding pass within quick reach. It stands at a cabin-sized 55 cm (21.7 in) tall. For other wheeled options, see our wheeled carry-on range.

For two or three nights, the soft-sided Weekender gives where a hard shell cannot: it squashes into a tight overhead bin, then holds its shape once it is out. A padded sleeve takes a laptop up to 16 inches, a removable shoulder strap swaps in when your hands are full, and metal feet on the base keep it off wet floors. There is a women's Weekender in the same design.

When what you carry changes through the day, the 10X converts with it. It works as a backpack to the gate, a messenger into the meeting and a travel bag for the overnight, and its depth expands when the trip grows. The padded sleeve takes a 15.6-inch laptop, a 16-inch MacBook Pro included, and four detachable organizers keep the inside from becoming one deep hole. A women's 10X does the same.

Want your hands free on a long terminal walk? The Liberty backpack puts a 14-inch laptop on your back in a structured leather shape that looks like a work bag, not a sports pack. It stands upright on its own when you set it down, two zipped front pockets take the things you reach for often, and at 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) it stays light for its size. The women's Liberty matches it.

Carrying a 17-inch laptop? Most bags stop at 16. The City Large is the one built for the big machine, with a padded center compartment sized to a 17-inch device, room for A4 papers alongside it, and metal feet so it stands on its own when you reach in for a document. It carries as a personal item under the seat.

Traveling light with a 14-inch laptop, the Elegant slim bag is the least you can carry and still carry leather: one compartment, 8.5 cm (3.3 in) deep, about 1.16 kg (2.6 lb). It fits A4, slides onto a roller handle with its luggage strap, and tucks under the seat in front of you. There is a women's version too.

If you take a laptop to work every day and you want a tote that looks professional rather than sporty, the Elegance tote is the women's answer: a padded sleeve for a laptop up to 16 inches, a large zipped inner pocket for the things that get lost in a tote, and metal feet on the base. At about 1 kg (2.2 lb) it is the lightest laptop bag in the range, and it slides under the seat.

Or start from a wider selection:

• Leather Travel Bags is the wider men's travel collection these are drawn from.
• Women's Leather Travel Bags gathers the full women's travel range.
• Leather Laptop Bags is the place to start for a daily-carry laptop bag rather than a travel bag.

Still deciding? A few guides help:

• If you are not sure whether the bag you want counts as a cabin bag or an under-seat personal item, the difference is worth reading before you choose.
• Good leather marks, and it is meant to. Here is how to keep yours looking its best.
• If the bag has to work with a suit, this covers what pairs well.

Whichever bag you choose, the same things come with it. Your initials, blind-embossed by hand on the included leather luggage tag at no charge. A 5-Year Limited Warranty stands behind the materials and the workmanship. Duties and taxes are absorbed too, so a bag bought as a gift arrives without a customs bill at the door.