Hi,

I'm really sad that last few days...2 of my MacBook and 1 of my MacBook Pro were stolen at Pagoh R&R!!!
I'm driving Van that day and take a rest at Pagoh R&R ,after a teh tarik...window broken and all my Macs gone and 2 of my DSLR camera also stolen!!!

I already report it to the Police but seems hard to get back my babies...

Any helps on the Serial Number???
Did you guys face the problem before??
What s'ld i do??

why u put inside car at first place? smart.


but sad for you la. goodluck!

did u store the stuff at somewhere un-noticeable or u just put at the seat?
if just put at the seat or just hide a bit but ppl from outside still can see it, then its ur fault for forget the safety measure u should done.. its really hard to get back.. do u have serial number of the stuff? maybe can trace by buyers... hope u can get back ur stuff un-harm and hey dont sell it yet...

sorry to hear that.... wow, 2 MacBook+Pro, 1 DSLR DC.... i think total up more than 10K already lor....

nowadays... those thevies have very ADVANCE tools to detect if your car has notebook inside.... i'm not sure how they detect it... but they sure have their way !!

learn from the mistakes.... remember NOT to leave anything inside the car nowadays, as it is no longer SAFE even it is your car !

hope u will get back your stuffs lar....

heard that nowadays thieves oso become tech savvy already , bring along sensor to determine which car got electronic devices inside .

brother sorry to hear that,,
but u driving a van....van hard to notice....
anyway got insurance?

X-ray vision Woot>< , Good luck with item. Hope you can get them back

yrs ago ive heard tat they are using a device as small as a car alarm remote tat will detect emittion from the laptop battery.....

wat happens is tat when ur laptop battery is attached to the laptop it'll emit some sort of radiation or something like tat which is totally naked to the eyes

this device will detect these emittion hence even when u hide it in ur vehicles they will still know ur laptop is there

so u can either remove the battery or dont leave it there

i have heard of R&R's in seremban-jb to be linked with syndicates. non-local.

sorry for your lost.

sorry for your loss
i dont think u can get it back lor .

Post it in the Garage Sales notice too.

Wow.. So many replies but yet no help. Mactreouser, post all the serial numbers & ur contact here, and like Cello said, in Garage Sales as well so if anyone comes across it could inform you.

Better post your Serial Number.

Write it to Apple Computers and I mean and just inform our local retails saying that your laptop is lost. Let them blacklist the serial number , so they are able to locate

No one witness the incident? That R&R can't be that vacant right?

Wow..thanks buddies for the Sympathy to me...
Ya,i'll try to search back all my Stuff's serial no: then...and post it everywhere la..

As i mention i did cover with the Black Clothes...and Windows were Black so...and i park nearby the Shell petrol station man...They told me..they din't saw any suspect woh...wa lau...

Besides,R&R leh...Big places leh...Why so un-secure de??that's what i'm wondering and sad...we user trust them..pay for the toll..but they did not take action to make us safe...upset la...

Oh yeah..someone mention about INSURANCE...what insurance is that??is the normal car insurance do able be claim back??Or other type of insurance??

I did call up the apple support of malaysia..but they mention that they did not have the system to trace the serial no: while someone trade-in or sell it to apple shop as 2nd hand stuff...

Help..Help..Help...

ope u don't have any confidential information in those Macs...good luck

Am sorry to hear about the loss; don't think ur gonna be getting your MBs or DSLRs back though *gulps*

Some of us do insure our laptops; hence if u did get yours insured, u would be able to claim from your insurance company some form of cash to get a new one

sorry to hear that... insurances mean u buy insurances for you laptop.. if you lose it.. you able to claim a new 1 from the insurance company...

Serial Number PLSSS

well i'm sorry to heard that, some more i know the price for each mac u have and DSRL too. really sorry to heard that. but just to inform actually there is an application (LoJack for Laptops) that can track ur laptop. but of course that application should be install it b4 u lost it.
ermm i can't help much but i just know there is an application that i found in apple store last time. yeah i heard that too, nowdays some device can use to detect those laptop if it attached with ur battery.

This post has been edited by suiryuu: Dec 24 2007, 12:08 AM

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

@rx330,
Just the other day during lunch, a guy left his Crumpler bag next to him; in an easily 'grab-able' position. Though it was a Black Crumpler, it looked pretty nice *grins* I jokingly told my friends i was tempted to just grab the bag and run off *grins* - except i know how troublesome it can be with lost files, hence suggested perhaps I should just go up to the fella and grab his bag and tell him he's got 5 seconds to empty it !! *grins*

I think it's important to just becareful, whether or not your laptop's insured or not! The heartache's less if it's insured but it's still heart breaking to have to lose all those data!

I don't think thieves do much good things around here. The only way is to make regular backups of your phone/laptop.

For Mac, use SuperDuper to make an exact clone of your HDD
For phones, I just sync the contacts I have to my Mac.

As for the recovering your Macs, there is this service online which keeps track on your Mac if ever if goes missing.

http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/

This post has been edited by kwekeugene: Dec 24 2007, 04:15 PM

lesson here, don't put valuable stuff in your car. always carry it, everywhere

@kwekeugene,
Thanks for the heads up. Am gonna check out SuperDuper as recommended. If got Leopard then can just use Time Machine. Alas, don't have.. hMm.. should I just hope for Santa to drop it into my stockings tonight?

touch wood, but i was hoping my vaio get stolen

its a fark up notebook

Cool Apps

but does it sell at malaysia?

@balok,

You can buy it online. I don't think it comes in a physical form of CD, only downloads.

@rx330,

I would more than happy to "steal" the Vaio for you.

@rx330,
There are many ways to 'lose' your Vaio !

My deepest condolence, R.I.P...

i know lar... actually i wanna make "poof" since early tis year liao... but... sigh....

have to do police report avthing....

@rx330,
Don't 'purposely' do it lah - it's not ethical !

all the devils ard me.....

@rx330,
I'd been brought up not to take advantage of these things - it's against my principles.

u got good parents

I dun think serial numbers are useful. I worked in a mac shop b4 but they wont bother to trace all serial numbers...

Nowadays where oso not safe, is our own responsibility to protect our laptops...

wat to do.... u think watchin CSI ar?
tats why wen i go kl, everybody bring their notebook with them, nobody leave them in car

check this anti-theft system for macs.. like a car alarm

http://hight3ch.com/post/ialertu-anti-thef...acbook-laptops/

thats if you have the macbook switched on, or you have a portable speakers that allow everyone to hear it. The sound isn't that loud and its still an unstable software. The only good it does is that it takes photo, but i believe his notebook was closed...isnt it..

@-Jonathan-,
Speaking of sound. Is it me or do I find the MBP speakers a little soft; i mean, especially in a crowded/noisy environment? Other notebook speakers seem to at least be loud enough to listen, unlike mine!

i tot all notbook speakers are soft....

Not really rx330, it depends on the type of notebook

My friend is using a HP DV9000 series, using altec lansing speaker, has easily one of the most audible sound ever. Macbook has really low volume

maybe i haven use and see enuff notebooks

And thus I suppose most of us do concur that the MB's and MBP's speakers are rather soft?

Probably they made it that way so that MB/MBP users won't be the idiot with the blazing loud songs in Starbucks. Earphone ftw?

This post has been edited by kwekeugene: Dec 29 2007, 02:35 PM

yup macbooks volume rather soft compared to my previous notebooks..its not really suitable to watch movies

try to contact your reseller, mayb they keep a record of ur serial no. Where do u buy from?