Best Way to lock down and track rMBP

there is a program calld prey. which you can contact the website if your mac get stolen and they can track the location of the macbook and they take pictures of the perp who took your macbook.

http://preyproject.com/

may i ask how your wife's macbook was stolen? im just curious because i just got my first macbook and i always worry about it getting stolen.

 

Sorry that your apartment was broken into, I can't imagine experiencing that at least insurance covered it.

Yeah as nia820 suggested, get Prey. If you really want to be secure, buy Prey Pro Personal. It's only $5 a month and supports up to 3 devices (if you guys have iPhones, Android phones, iPads, other laptops, etc.). You can check Pro out here http://preyproject.com/plans. It may or may not be worth it to you. I personally wouldn't upgrade to Pro.

You can also check out LoJack. It's a little pricey, but probably gives more security. They have an actual team who would work to locate it if stolen. http://www.absolute.com/lojackforlaptops.

 

Are any of you actually using Prey? Looks interesting.

 

I've used it before - very good app.

 

orbicule.com/undercover

 

The new version of Undercover seems pretty solid, I think I'll install it as soon as my Mac arrives.

 

Undercover is great. The difference between it and Prey Project - dedicated, professional support, is worth 5x the price if your Mac actually gets stolen.

 

I have another app called hidden installed, but undercover looks pretty good too. What I wonder though is that these apps have no way to protect them from booting in to my windows partition?

 

Put a password on your Windows accounts...?

 

Yeah i do, but hidden takes pictures when you start up the machine, but that doesn't happen on windows.