Boy was the name of this product missleading. Is it armored? lolno There isn't a bit of hard anything on it. The cover is soft plastic with a mild amount of resistance... I had expected a hard plastic panel, you know - armor, on the front and it was not. Is it padded? Yes. There is an good amount of padding for the laptop in every direction including the bottom. There's also enough padding from the front to back that theoretically the laptop would be fine even if you kicked the front of the backpack out of rage from buying it. It gets 4 stars for the name. Had this actually been a hard shell backpack like made for motorcycles I'd have been raving about this thing. Only /problem/ with it is the middle zipper set tends to get stuck on itself, or the liner behind it. A minor annoyance.

It’s sturdy and looks nice. My only issue was the lack of expansion in the front pocket in comparison to the mid so it’s difficult to fit an iPad with the cover plus the laptop, mouse, headphones, and keyboard without squishing. Also, don’t care for the water bottle holder mesh since it holds slim bottles.

very good quality and tailoring of this bag a lot of space and pockets inside

Very protective. Very roomy love it. Also the hard shell awesome

Love the backpack—very deep and has twin sections aside from the padded laptop section that makes it easy to organize. The only issue is it is a heavy backpack, so even with just my laptop and charger, it is difficult to carry and gives me very bad neck and backaches. My laptop is heavy as it is—it is a Lenovo gaming computer I use for work, so these two combined make it very heavy.