Thought I would add a quick something to the pot. If you are looking for a really nice cheap(ish) gen bag, the Coach Thompson Messenger has been absolutely great to me for the past 6 months. I picked it up while on a trip after the messenger bag I had been using at the time fell apart (was just some cheap cloth bag). I decided that I would pick up a really good quality leather bag, but didn't want something with rigid sides because I can't ever fit all my stuff in those. Coach was having a 25% off preferred customer event at the time so I went in and picked up the bag for a cool $280 or so and have been very happy with not only how well it is standing up to being my daily beater bag (showing no signs of wear short of some wrinkles on the strap) but it really can hold a lot of stuff (my average carry is, 13" Macbook, charger, tablet, camera, cables and chargers for iPhone and Nokia Lumia, other wallet, pills, mini displayport to VGA and HDMI, card reader, Ethernet cable, moleskin, pens and sharpies, multitool, and whatever I need for my client visit). I am also a fan of the fact that standing upright it can fit under every airline seat that I have put it under (meaning that I have more foot room) and the magnetic closures hold the bag closed very well so my stuff isn't spilling out everywhere.

There are bags from the LV Utah and Targa lines that would be similar, however looking at Fab they are priced around $200 and at that point I am of the opinion that you might as well shell out the extra $80 and get yourself a gen. Say what you will about their women's stuff, but their men's line has me sold more and more as I look into it. The quality matches the price point very well from what I have been finding, and most of their men's line isn't full of the monogram (which I am becoming less and less a fan of).