when you carry expensive goods. next time just quickly grab your drink (bungkus /take-away) then go back to the van.

if not, then at least park where you can see.

Act.. perhaps be a better idea not to even stop ! *grins*

Sad to heard that, i also feel that pain, i lost my laptop last time also... what can do? hope on police? better hope ourself beware anytime anywhere when we carrying the laptop or valuable stuff!

http://bak2u.blogspot.com/

can try this app for ur mobile devices in the future.
am using it for my ipod and laptop. gives a peace of mind.

I also got the same incident, but those dumb thieves only managed to take PDA instead of my bag, which contains notebook and IPod. I still angry at those thieves because just buy the PDA 1 week ago priced RM4K. but its my mistake coz i put it at driver seat, easily people around to see

sad to hear tat
anyway, next time for notebook which are quite pricey, do buy insurance for them, i do

Thanks again for those reply!!!

Heard a lot talking bout insurance...how much to insure a laktop?Sure c'ld be claim back while stolen?any other support s'ld have to makesure we claim it back?

I'm sad as well...but i am also sad to the parents of the person who stole my stuff...Un-Educated children...maybe their parents the theif as well...who knows?!

Have u tried?

Im seriously skeptic about this..

the insurance coverage premium that i heard last time was 2% of the selling price value, how much they pay you is depend on the market price for that machine when the incident happened.

As laptop is considered high risk, not all insurance takes it.

this method also not so secure, one of my friend lost her laptop infront of boutique that she went. she just leave her car about 5 mins and when she came back.. poof! its gone!

next time need to buy a good security car

Thieves can detect laptops in cars using "scanners" of some sort.

Is that true or just a myth?

it is true... they have their own 'tools' to detect those electronics stuffs...
just we definitely won't have chance to see it, unless u know some of the 'theft' friends lor...

Thanks for the response.

I would certainly like to know what technology they are using.

even i took my old ibook with me n not to let in my fathers car, well a JPJ car.hahaha

i bought insurance for my notebook

per annum i think its ard 300 or 150++ cant really remember
for value rm 6999

there are many clause to it, if its place in the front sit they will not pay for it

during claim, they will pay the equivalent model current price and dedcut rm 1k off the value

I did this for my stolen VAIO last time n Sony Malaysia was willing to help. I made a police report for the stolen VAIO with serial numbers n all. Then I took the report to Sony service centre to notify them that the VAIO had been stolen. Sony said what they can do for me is to hold on to the laptop if it ever goes in to any Sony Malaysia service center for service or repairs. Then they'll call me in to sort it out with help from the police.

Apple should be able to do that for u too.

This post has been edited by ianho: Dec 24 2007, 02:46 PM

@kwekeugene,
From what I been told, the detector detects the CMOS batt so even if we physically take the batt out of the notebook, it's still detectable. The best is to carry our laptops with us at all times.

@rx330,
Mine's insured too - only thing not insured are the information on the HDD. And now that I'm customising my desktop and stuff, I am most reluctant to lose mine - i wonder if i could tell the thief, go ahead and take the laptop but give me back my HDD *grins*

tinkerbel, yea i agree
like wallet missing, only hoping they would return back imnportant things like IC
same like hphone, phone missign still fine, sim card is the thing tats important