When you own expensive stuff like laptop or something, better lock your doors, windows 24/7
one more thing, don't show to strangers that you have laptop
keep it low profile & hide your laptop where people don't expect can hide something there plus make extra lock for your house

TS so soi meh?? like tat i suggest ts buy a cheaper laptop.

Cheap laptop cannot do anything much
limited usage will make us

Extra precaution is needed to protect your laptop
Don't leave your laptop in your living room just like that
cover it with something & place it somewhere else like in a drawer or wardrobe

belive it or not, i place my laptop under my bed when i am out for a long period lol. Low profile is good, just dun let outsiders know that you are using a laptop. Choose backpacks that look like a normal backpack instead of a notebook backpack.

You are right
Choose a bag that doesn't look like a notebook bag/backpack

Just lay low profile like you an average people
don't show to ousiders that you are a rich people
Keep it simple

Yup nowadays those thiefs would aim at those users that they suspect u r packing a notebook in ur bag. They would wait until u actually leave the bag in ur car and walk off. Ya know, sumtimes we go for movies or go for fast shopping after work (notebooks are required) and we just leave our notebooks in our car.

The most important thing,
Bring your laptop where ever you go
For example, in the toilet, DON'T put your laptop on the floor
hang it where ever you can

This post has been edited by madstone: May 20 2009, 03:21 PM

maybe they didnt know there's laptop inside. they just think there must be money or anything which is worth to them. wherever u go,just be careful cuz at the kampung also got so many cases regarding this situation.

People are so desperate for money nowadays
they will do anything to fulfill their bad desire or bad habit
drug addicts especially, will do anything to fulfill their addict to drugs
no wonder got so many cases today of stolen laptop

Unfortunately I lost my ACER laptop. It was at home and I went for my job and when I came back, it was stolen. Some dirtly @#$hole stole it. It was an Acer Aspire 5740G-6979 Laptop - Dark Blue wit glossy outer cover.

My wife bought it for me from the US. God, I had chosen it after so many reviews, and now some $#@tard has stolen it. I even complained to the police and security and there seems to be limited response.

Also, I know the guy who stole is an illiterate bcos,he took away with my laptop alone and not the charger, external hard disk, my xbox game console etc. God knows what the hell he has done with that.

Guys, if anyone knows of such an Acer laptop, please do let me know. One major mark, its DVD ROM slot is broken, so when u open the DVD Drive, it will kind of fall down. So, if anyone can help me, I will be very happy and even willing to pay some reward.

God Help me.

Vijay

My 3 year old dell 6400 got stolen I put it in the room and went for class. After 3 hours of class, I came back and saw my house main door wide open with missing padlock . I went to my room and saw my laptop power supply and mouse unplug and missing laptop. No other thing got stolen except my laptop. And only my room laptop got stolen.

I

+1 Lay low
Still, large laptops are more conspicuous since they require larger bags.... and people seldom bring large bags unless they bring their laptop (based on personal experiences)
Going for a smaller notebook next time

Agree. By the way, i put my laptop on the desk in my room haha. Just my room locked and the whole house didn't lock geh ... LOL

That's not exactly safe leh
Thief who managed to enter your house surely won't have problem opening your locked room door
Its kind of redundant la... I bought my Qosmio for performance and multimedia, not for portability but in the end I still carry it everywhere because scared it's stolen (my area crime rate is quite high)

I see. My area crime rate not bad la hahaha.. Still, coz i'm downloading stuff, so i was unable to hide it.

The laptop detector is true.. It’s costs you RM 50 only and the thieves can start the “business”.

http://www.wengkien.com/2009/04/24/laptop-detector/

Damn it really exists
Thanks for sharing, will be more careful from now on

I think we should have a list of place which most crime rates is high for the stolen laptop so we can be extra careful when we were there..

My experience..

1. Subang Parade lost HP touch X2
2. McD at jalan cheras

I doubt it's true. That device has nothing to do with laptop detector, it's just a spectrum analyser. http://www.saelig.com/whats_hot/EMC002.htm

That means cannot bring your laptop to Starbuck/Coffee Bean/Old Town White Coffee/McD/KFC to surf free wifi?

(Last time i lost my 17" toshiba laptop in a Hotel. That Hotel room's lock is just a mechanical low security lock.
Next time check in Hotel must make sure they are using electronic key card lock)

(On some car stereo, you can take out the front panel so that even the thief stole you car stereo without the front panel it will be useless.
laptop manufacturer should do something like this...laptop come with one/two or three smartcard (like astro decoder) without the smartcard it is imposible to turn on the laptop. And each laptop has its own unique smartcard).

This post has been edited by tanhks: Sep 28 2010, 07:14 AM