I have had this bag for a year now and I still use it regularly. I can take my laptop with me to school and still have my camera with a couple of smaller lenses with me in case I happen across something I want to shoot. If you are using this bag as a general use bag and you want a laptop and some food or a change of clothes it is nice. If you have bigger lenses you will run out of space really quickly. The nicest feature of who low profile it is, a few times I have pulled my camera out and friends I was with were amazed that I always have my camera, they thought my bag was a regular backpack.I have taken this bag hiking a couple of times and it was comfortable all day (although if I would have put a laptop in the bag it would have been too heavy.) After a year of at least weekly use the bag is in excellent shape.