The material is beautiful and high quality. I just have two qualms with the construction/design. The bottom board is a long rectangle and the long edge cuts into the muscles of my mid back when the straps are adjusted properly. Also, the laptop sleeve is on the outside facing wall of the backpack instead of the wall against the straps. I feel like if I was using this for a laptop it would make the bag really unbalanced as a backpack. Maybe if the laptop sleeve was on the wall with the backpack straps then some cushioning could be integrated to ease the cutting feeling on the back.