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Hey everybody and welcome back to the Microsoft Ignite countdown.
I'm Joey Snow.
>> I'm Rick Claus.
>> This is Episode Number 6.
>> I think we should call this Epic-sode Number 6.
>> Epic-sode?
>> Epic-sode.
>> It could be.
>> It's the most talked about, wanted to know about piece of information
at every single conference that you ever go to. What is it?
>> It's not the party?
>> Well, that's a close second.
>> It is a close second.
>> It's a close second.
>> You know what? I was walking through the halls and I happen
to swing by an office and pick some things up.
Let me show. You ready?
The bags.
>> No.
>> No?
>> Those aren't. Because I also walked by an office and I picked
up the bags.
>> We have four bags. That is awesome.
>> Wait a second, the first question that's going to come up is,
what color bad do I get?
>> The answer to that question is you get to pick the color of
bag that you want depending upon availability of course.
>> I was going to say depending upon availability and stock.
>> Yes, you can pick your favorite option. We have the yellow,
we've got the blue.
>> I've got the green over here and this one is all loaded up
to be able to show you what it can hold. Then the orange one
over here.
I'm going to
set these down here. Before we can get into what they can hold,
we took some foot earlier on the inside of one of the bags.
>> The major features from an empty perspective of what the bag is.
>> As we mentioned before there are four available trim colors
so that you can chose and pick your favorite option. They are
made out of durable ballistic fabric.
>> Just so you know, that does not mean that they can stop a bullet.
>> That is correct, thanks for highlighting that one.
>> Just to clarify what ballistic material actually means.
>> What you have is you've got a couple of different compartments.
You've got this big main room compartment, it's got sleeves for
both a laptop as well as a separate Surface or a tablet, there
is also a ton of space in there for your cables, all the various
things that you've got there, documents, any other personal belongings
that you have.
The shoulder straps are pretty awesome, super, super great padding
on those to give you some of that comfort during those long days
on the show floor. Then on the back there's also an air channel
and it's a padded back air channel so that you've got both the
support to support the backpack as well as air flowing through,
so you've got comfort there.
The sides of the backup, they have these mesh bottle holders
and it comes with a matching bottle, the matching water bottle.
>> Just think, it's a trading item you could you use with all
your friends, you can mix and match the colors.
>> I love this, the front outer pocket has a removable matching
accessory pouch. This is where you're going to throw all of your
chargers, all of your different adapters, all of the many video
adapters that we've got to carry out, your USB sticks.
>> That typically get lost in the bottom of the bag.
>> Sure, absolutely. You're little travel mouse, all of those things.
We hope that the Ignite backpack has something really for anybody
and for everyone.
That's kind of a quick little view of the inside.
>> Let's actually show you the details of how this is all executed.
>> Yes because we get a ton of questions whenever we do the bag
episode about hey will it fit this, hey will it fit that.
What we have done is we have actually emptied the massive knapsack
that Rick carries around with him, it weighs a lot. We'll just
say that, it weighs a lot.
We've managed to fit everything into the nice, compact green
version of the Ignite backpack.
>> In case you don't from the color of my hat, I happen to like
green so that's why I chose green. We'll start off with the
sides just basically right off the front to be able to show you
that, yes, you've got the water, it's all there and that's all good.
It has a built-in little clip that allows you to clip it on to
stuff as well, which is quite nice. Then the other mesh side
as well to be able to put another water bottle, or as in this
case here a Channel 9 guy and a Windows guy happens to be in
there quite nicely, just as it goes. Now you talked about the
insert at the front, so let's go into this one in here. You saw
it empty earlier. In here you got your latchable being able to
put your keys onto it and I've got my Leatherman tool on there
too, and then I've got my keys all set to go.
Obviously that's not TSA approved, so don't use that in TSA.
Then I love this one, you mentioned this, the accessory.
>> That's my favorite.
>> The accessory one is very, very nice.
It can be used for your lip balm and other stuff like that if
you happen to have things, but it's also very handy as you mentioned.
It opens up and folds flat for all of this stuff.
>> I didn't even know that.
>> It actually folds flat. I've got my audio cables in there for
my portable recorder, I've got my flashlight, network USB adapter
and then I actually have my old Actiontec HDMI display input.
>> Your little hockey puck thing.
>> My hockey puck thing. That actually works out quite well.
>> There's a little front zipper pocket up there.
>> Zipper on the front as well, it's a separate compartment to
put stuff in.
>> USB sticks.
>> USB sticks, ID cards, things like that. That's a possibility
that happens to be in there.
There is space in the front here as well, I've got
my cable locks, I've got my HDMI cable because I didn't want
to put it in there. I will warn you though, if you fill up your
accessory case to think it won't fit back inside the original pocket.
The Actiontec opening is a little bit too large for that when
everything is all put together, so I'd watch out for that.
Then of course you've got your pen holder where you can put all
your pens, including my Surface pen.
>> You actually have one.
>> Surface pen not included.
All these accoutrements are all mine by the way, they all came
out my bag.
>> We just emptied Rick's knapsack. Also you notice there's the
pocket where your phone is, a little padded.
>> I was looking for my phone, I didn't know where that went.
I didn't know where I put it.
>> It's in the bag.
>> The piece de resistance is the big guy in the back.
>> What size laptop will it fit?
>> I found the smallest laptop I could find.
Obviously my Surface fits in nicely on the inside table sleeve,
which is padded as well. Then I have an old clunker of a 15 inch
laptop which happens to work in the main one.
>> Did you have that in the main padded pocket?
>> That was the main padded pocket. Then just to prove that it
does fit, it is snug, just to prove it does fit I brought the
17 inch
Dellasaurus Precious workstation box that I use for some of my
server demos and stuff. It weighs about 20 pounds.
>> It's a couple inches thick.
>> The battery life is about 15 minutes when it's unplugged.
There's still more because there's a document sleeve in here
as well. The document sleeve I just happen to have my Kindle
for reading on the plane, so my paperweights in there. Then the
neat part about the main pocket is the fact that it's got this
ginormous area, that's where the big 17 incher was stored, can
fit in there and it is padded on both sides. It's padded on
the side where the outside pocket is, it's padded on the back
with the back pads and it's also padded with the
laptop sleeve, so if it doesn't fit inside the sleeve it can
fit in between and still be protected.
>> I'm looking at this and you could put a laptop, a table, plus
a three-ring binder, all of those things in there so really a
bag that I think is going to be useful not only for while you
are at Microsoft Ignite, which is May 4th through the 8th in
Chicago, but also to use well after. Love the option, the removable
bag for the accessories is fantastic.
>> This isn't silk screened either, this is embroidered.
Embroidered both logos and also at the top as well with Microsoft
Ignite, so those aren't going to wear off on you, which is always nice.
That's a nice added touch.
>> You're going to have a backpack that you're going to be able
to use for quite a bit of time even after the show.
>> One per attendee.
>> Yes.
>> Before anyone starts to ask, you need to barter with your own
skills and resources to be able to get one of each color.
We will also be bartering to get one of each color as well.
>> I'm only getting one.
>> I don't even know if we get one because we're staff.
>> I don't know.
>> We'll find out.
>> You could barter maybe you have the blue backpack, you want
the green accessory and the yellow bottle.
>> Definitely swap them out.
>> There you have it.
>> You get this at Microsoft Ignite. You said the dates, the
dates are May 4th through May 8th and it's in Chicago.
Hopefully you've already gone ahead and registered at ignite.microsoft.com,
click on the registration button up on the top right-hand corner.
I think it's top right-hand if I remember correctly. Then don't
forget, we also have the pre-days that you can go for as well
or if you register you can always go back and add the pre-day
after the fact.
You get this when you signup and you go in and you register onsite
you'll be able to pick up your bag at materials distribution
is what they've been traditionally calling it. I don't know
what they're going to call it this time.
>> We'll find out. We'll bring that information right to you.
If you have questions to address to ask us about the bag, about
the conference in general, you comment on the comment section
below this video. You can also use the Twitter.
We follow the hashtag #MSIgnite.
>> Always a good one.
>> Or if you want to follow the actual or have a direct question
that you want to ask the Ignite team you can use @MS_Ignite.
If you've got a question specifically to one of us you can get
me on Twitter, I'm @JoeySnow.
>> I'm @RicksterCDN.
>> You can always follow the forums which is where a lot of the
questions have been coming in. Channel9.msdn.com, go to the top,
select forums and then chose Microsoft Ignite, we've been monitoring those.
Which I'm going to guess there's going to be quite a bit of buzz
and excitement in the forums following this episode with the
fantastic bags, it's not just one, we've got
four different flavors for you to choose from.
>> I was going to say use the hashtags igniteorange, ignitegreen,
igniteblue or igniteyellow to show your preference. Let's find
out, see which one people like the most.
>> That sounds fantastic to me, random survey.
That does it for another episode of the Microsoft Ignite Countdown.
We'll be back next week with even more fun and answers to your
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