Originally Posted by MaddMatt05

The SSD thing is definitely worth looking into. It makes a laptop much more resilient. Personally, I have Timbuk2 panniers, and I just put my 15" laptop in a padded neoprene sleeve, then put that whole thing in the pannier. I don't care my laptop around frequently, but its been fine so far. I DO carry an iPad Pro every day for my 15 mile commute in a pannier though, and before the iPad Pro, a regular iPad. Its just anecdotal, but in a few years carrying them, they've been ok. (This includes a time the panniers slid off the back because I forgot to secure them properly.)