i have owned one of those for over a year, great bag, used it as my ghb for a while untill recently when walking home from work became a 2 day trip, now it holds my first aid kit and i find it does that very well, love maxpaditions products but sometimes i find there are cheaper alternatives that do the job as well or close enough to warrent going with a different brand,
I picked myself up a MEC Deluxe Book Bag Daypack in black a few months ago and I really like it so far. I looked at the maxpidition packs online but I wanted something a little more "grey" for taking to work.
http://www.mec.ca/AST/ShopMEC/Packs/SchoolBags/PRD~5026-294/mec-deluxe-book-bag-daypack.jsp
Before that I was using a black 3-day assault pack type pack. It was pretty good too but looked a bit more paramilitary than I wanted (it wasn't too bad though). It's serving as my get home bag right now and it lives in the trunk of my car


