Balancing iPad and MacBook portability in a Swiss Gear backpack

Only suggestion is that if you want to put the Mac and the iPad in the same pocket of the backpack, but one of the devices in a sleeve.

Unless you are you a particularly fragile person, Adam, or have a disability of some sort that limits your capacity, I wouldn't expect a MacBook Air and iPad Pro to be at all uncomfortable to carry in a backpack.

It's not uncommon to see folks regularly carry 10# or 15# or 20# in a backpack. Take a look around any college campus, for example.

I do believe you're overthinking this.

IPadClub wrote:

do you think I should trade in my iPad and get an iPad mini cause the iPad mini is lighter and I know if I put an iPad Pro that weigh is 1.28 pounds and a MacBook it’s like 3.36 pounds so do you think I should get an iPad mini

We don't know how much weight you are comfortable carrying or what your needs are for an iPad.

I have both an MBP and and iPad Pro. I almost never had need to carry both.

IPadClub wrote:

do you think I should trade in my iPad and get an iPad mini cause the iPad mini is lighter and I know if I put an iPad Pro that weigh is 1.28 pounds and a MacBook it’s like 3.36 pounds so do you think I should get an iPad mini

I think that only you can answer that question.

Only you would know how much weight you're comfortable carrying, what will fit in your backpack and what your needs are.