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

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

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

@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*

@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!

@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?

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

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

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

@-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!

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