AER Tech Brief review – your mobile office, optimized!

REVIEW – When you’re searching for one thing completely different in a briefcase-style bag, AER might have your reply. The Tech Temporary is a full-featured bag designed to haul all your tech and workplace gear for the every day commute. The look would be the envy of all of the IT-issued laptop computer baggage you’ll see in your travels. How does it work as a day-to-day commuter? To the overview!

What’s it?

The AER Tech Temporary is a contemporary briefcase that’s been optimized to arrange your tech and equipment.

Tech specs

Design and options

That is the third merchandise I’m testing from the AER’s 2024 Tech Assortment, which focuses on optimizing tech-heavy carry for creatives and professionals. The entire assortment features a sling, a short, two completely different backpacks, and two completely different materials choices (Cordura and X-Pac).

The AER Tech Temporary presents with an uncommon profile for a briefcase. The deeply rounded corners and a wedge-shaped facet profile which might be signature components of the Tech Assortment give this bag a glance that’s harking back to an old-school physician’s bag with up to date styling.

One of many actually fascinating bits about this bag is the body construction. Bolstered stitching and padded panels in the suitable locations give the bag a inflexible form and the power to face by itself. There are not any metallic/plastic helps or a body sheets within the construct, although. The online result’s a surprisingly light-weight bag for it’s measurement that also retains a inflexible construction.

Like different baggage within the AER Tech Assortment, this design is environment friendly, clear, and purposeful from each angle. This specific bag hits somewhat completely different in my eye. That shiny cloth on the entrance face, coupled with these dramatic curves (together with the seize handles), provides somewhat additional artistic funk to the model.

The twin zips on the entrance panel run nearly all the way down to the underside of the bag, totally exposing the admin panel for organizing all your equipment and tech bits. Excessive-visibility gentle gray cloth that’s used all through the inside areas so yow will discover your stuff.

You’ve received six completely different pockets on the admin panel. There’s a padded drop pocket that runs the width and depth of the bag. I’ve a Leuchtterm pocket book in there for reference, however you may simply stow a 12.9″ iPad Professional with the Magic Keyboard there with room to spare.

This divider is fronted on the left facet by elastic-fronted pockets. The rear pockets are about half the depth of the house  (one slender, one huge), whereas the entrance pocket is 1/2 the width of the bag and runs to the bottom.

The appropriate facet of the panel has a zipper pocket with a key leash that’s about half the depth of house (matching the left facet), with a decrease pocket that’s the mirror of the one on the left hand facet. You even have a little bit of an area you’ll be able to see on this pic that runs the width of the bag. Mixed with that pleated entrance panel, because of this you will have additional house in a pinch if you want to stow one thing on-the-fly.

Flipping the bag round and also you’ll discover a baggage deal with pass-through strap on the again face, together with 2 again pockets.

The primary pocket is zippered and matches the inside lining of the bag. It is a spot to safe issues chances are you’ll want rapidly with out digging into the bag like your cellphone, a piece badge, or your pockets.

There’s additionally an enormous drop pocket that runs the width of the bag. That is nice for stashing a pocket book, a pill, or boarding passes whilst you’re shifting round.

Your inside major compartment features a padded laptop computer sleeve on the rear face, which is at present holding my 16″ MacBook Professional. The pill sleeve in entrance of it is going to simply take a 12.9″ MacBook Professional with the magic keyboard.

The principle compartment has loads of house for all of your additional gear. Twin zips run all the best way down the edges so you will get deep into the bag, calling again to that physician’s bag model. I’ve a Jabra headset in there for a measurement reference, however you’ll see fitter footage beneath.

There’s additionally a zipped pocket that runs the size of the bag on the alternative facet, behind the admin panel. That is an odd one. Just like the Tech Pack 3 I reviewed beforehand, this pocket may be very tight. I feel it’s place for additional cables.

You may have 3 ways to hold this bag. The seize handles are calmly padded and preserve that inflexible half-moon form. There’s additionally somewhat snap button strap you need to use to safe them collectively while you’re shifting.

Your shoulder strap anchor factors are on the again of the bag. It appears a bit odd at first, nevertheless it retains the strap from getting in the best way of full entry to the primary compartment. That huge, padded shoulder strap coupled with the adjustable strap size lets you use the bag for over-the-shoulder carry or cross physique like a messenger bag.

{Hardware} and development all through the AER Tech Temporary are excellent. You’ve received YKK zips with customized rubberized zip pulls as seen beneath.

Chunky plastic swivel clips join the bag to the straps. You can too see an important instance of the ending particulars on this pic. See how that D-ring is mounted? You might sew the nylon D-ring loop proper to the again panel, however AER selected to tuck it behind the again panel with strengthened stitching for a extra refined look and stronger anchoring. You’ll see this sort of element all through the construct.

The 15″ lengthy shoulder pad is roughly 2.75″ at its widest level, tapering all the way down to 2″ on both finish. It’s properly padded however there’s a little bit of stiffness that can break in over time.

The underside of the pad has a waffle sample that offers a little bit of resistance to maintain the bag from sliding round in your shoulder. The entire size of the shoulder strap is roughly 40″ at full extension. This appears shorter for cross-body carry, however the positioning of the anchor factors behind the bag (versus on the corners) enable for a bit extra flexibility right here.

Efficiency

The AER Tech Temporary excels as a cell toolbox for fast entry to your stuff. Its huge base and wedge-shaped design enable it to face by itself, patiently ready so that you can get your gear.

The pairing of the primary compartment & admin panel design is superb for basic group. Large issues within the huge house, smaller necessities all laid out cleanly, and a few flexibility for tablets and notebooks and such. The usability is superb throughout.

Regardless of being solely 16 liters in capability, this can be a deceptively huge & roomy bag. I’ve all types of issues stuffed in that major compartment after I hit the workplace: my 16″ MacBook Professional, my 12.9″ iPad with the Magic Keyboard (not proven), my hydration bottle, a journey espresso mug, 2 completely different headphones, snacks… there’s nonetheless room for extra. I may get a lightweight rolled-up jacket in there or a packed lunch and extra with somewhat cautious packing.

The styling might be a bit extra subjective. These rounded formed give it extra of a recent/artistic vibe than a squared-off briefcase, however it is going to maintain up nicely to formal enterprise apparel or informal costume. I additionally dig the physician’s bag look. It’s completely different.

The scale is a bit chonky in comparison with a standard briefcase, however the tradeoff is all that additional room on your gear. Additionally it is very snug for over-the-shoulder carry given the light-weight body.

AER additionally makes the Tech Pack 3, which carries lots of the model queues and design components of this bag in a vertical format. The sizing between the 2 is sort of precisely the identical. It reads as a smaller backpack in that orientation and an even bigger transient right here.

I assumed the rounded seize handles can be much less snug, however I used to be improper. There’s some play within the padding, and including that strap to attach the 2 is a superb addition that stabilizes the handles while you’re shifting. The beneficiant loops offer you ample room to seize the handles while you’re on the go.

Crossbody carry is okay, however not what I’d name the energy of this bag in case you have an even bigger body like I do. The shoulder pad is huge and comfortable throughout our chest, however the slender house between the anchor factors and the shorter (40″) shoulder strap could make it a squeeze.

The little extras within the construct around the AER Tech Temporary out as an important commuter bag. I really like the twin pockets on the again panel for after I have to free my fingers. The bags pass-through deal with is an added bonus for in a single day adventures.

Construct high quality is basically, actually good. It’s somewhat misleading given the light-weight nature of the bag, nevertheless it’s constructed to take some punishment. I’ve tossed this beast round for a number of weeks on the commute and prepare journeys with no noticeable put on and tear. We’ll see the way it responds to long run testing.

What I like about AER Tech Temporary

• Glorious usability, with fast entry to all of the components of the bag
• Pockets for all the things
• Stands on it’s personal – splendid for cell workplace work
• Light-weight, but sturdy

What must be improved?

• Shoulder strap anchor factors might not work for cross-body carry for everybody
• Odd sub-pocket in the primary storage space has restricted usefulness

Remaining ideas

The AER Tech Temporary has turn out to be my go-to shoulder bag in latest weeks. It excels in usability as a cell workplace platform, and affords a really completely different expertise from a typical briefcase-style bag. The accessibility and group are wonderful, as is the capability to deal with only a bit greater than a streamlined transient. It additionally appears to be like nice with a cool model that stands other than the everyday squared-off briefcase.

The variations between this bag and the Tech Pack are value noting. Each baggage are an identical in general capability (16 liters) and share the identical fundamental design/structure ideas. The Pack incorporates a number of extra options that the heavy traveler will respect like a separate laptop computer/pill space, an exterior water bottle pocket, a number of seize handles, and an enormous padded externally-access pocket for fast seize gadgets. The Temporary, in distinction, gives simpler entry to all components of the bag and has a way more versatile major compartment space. You actually can’t go improper with both bag in commuting vs. enterprise journey in case you have a mode choice. Having dealt with each, nevertheless, I’d lean extra in the direction of the Tech Pack 3 if I used to be doing extra touring, and the Tech Temporary if my work model leaned extra in the direction of common workplace commuting.

Value: $159.00
The place to purchase: Get it on the AER web page!
Supply: The pattern of this product was supplied totally free by AER. AER didn’t have a remaining say on the overview and didn’t preview the overview earlier than it was printed.