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Osprey Farpoint Men's Travel Backpack (various colors): 55L $132 or 40L
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I saw lots of suggestion to buy 40L + 15L, but cost more.
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I saw lots of suggestion to buy 40L + 15L, but cost more.
Depending on which version this is….2024 or 2025:
Personally I recommend going with the 40L and getting a separate daypack later.
The problem is that the 55L omits the side-opening zippered laptop sleeve thats present on the 40L and encourages you to use the 15L daypack to stash your laptop.
This puts a heavy weight further from your body and can cause the daypack to droop a lot. The 40L laptop sleeve also provides better protection for the laptop IMO since it's closer to your body and it augments your center of gravity in a good way.
Personally I have been using my 40L (BF purchase 2025 @$92) with a 18L Hikelite pack that I got on here a couple years back.
The 40L Farpoint is pretty versatile and if you're crafty it can hold a variety of smaller bags (if you don't have their daypack) using its compression straps.
I can't say enough good things about Osprey. Easily one of my fav brands and I hope they keep on doing the amazing things they do. These days I just want to convert all my bags to Osprey since they are innovative as heck and just so incredibly comfortable.
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But... this makes the Farpoint 55's 40L bag not as useful if you're using it on its own, so if you're considering the Farpoint 55, you either want a 40L bag that is effectively a box, or are going to use in conjuction with a DayPack of some sort.
The Farpoint DayPack is 19'x11'x6', so it won't fit Personal Item dimensions for Spirit/Frontier (18"x14"x8") unless you underpack it a bit. If your carrier is not a LCC, they won't care, but do make sure to keep the two bags detached so they recognize both as size-compliant for their category.
As mentioned by others, you could get the Farpoint 40 and add a Daylite or Daylite Plus, but the DIY combo will weigh more and cost more: (using ~2022 MSRP)
* Farpoint 40 = 56oz ($185)
* Farpoint 55 = 68oz ($220)
* Farpoint 40 + Daylite (16oz) = 72oz ($185 + $60 = $245)
* Farpoint 40 + Daylite Plus (20oz) = 76oz ($185 + $75 = $260)
I went with the Farpoint 40 + Daylite Plus, because I was willing to deal with more weight and cost in exchange for the ability to use the 40L bag on its own. This worked out well, but there are two gotchas to mention.
1) The Farpoint DayPack has two strap pass-throughs on the front of the bag that allow you to attach/detach to the 40L bag using the compression straps with ease. For the Daylite, it's way more involved -- the side straps have to loop through the top, and the bottom hip belt attachment hooks on the elastic loop, and is quite difficult to attach/detach. This is both a pro and con, because the FarPoint 55's DayPack can be easily detached/stolen off your back, but stealing the Daylite will require a knife of some sort, as it's not coming off in under a minute otherwise.
Which brings us to the front/turtle carry option to prevent theft (or provide better balance)
2) The Farpoint DayPack has the ability to clip onto the front of the 40L backpack straps so you can front-carry the DayPack. For some reason, these clips do not work with the Daylite or Daylite Plus, so if you want "turtle carry" two bags using the backpack strap clips, only the Farpoint 55 + Farpoint DayPack can do that.
Anyhow, that's my 2 cents -- get whatever combo works for you!
I'm looking to invest in a combo it's ok if it's multi unit I travel alot not regular and lcc and need to be able to pivot between just personal item for 3 days travel to carry on for a week travel.
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