they're so different -- i think it may depend on how you plan to use it. i love, love, love my kabana (raisin chevre ), and i love the LOOK of the pm masai -- but just sold mine because it didn't work for my life. the kabana is great for carrying a lot -- it's a perfect work bag for those of us who refuse to carry a briefcase. the masai is beautiful, and i had it in the most beautiful olive color -- but it didn't hold enough for me. i could pack a lot into it, but then it bulged too much, and it wasn't quite wide enough at the top to get magazines or papers into it easily. but it would be great to bee-bop around town on the weekends. unless i were shopping, and then i'd wan't the kabana to tuck small purchases into.