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Did you have back to my mac in use? I heard there's a way to track it down with that.
Anyways, I sympathize with you. Hopefully it will get tracked down eventually.
If it makes you feel better - it's just a thing - and can be replaced. It's not like it's your left arm or anything.
Anyways, I sympathize with you. Hopefully it will get tracked down eventually.
If it makes you feel better - it's just a thing - and can be replaced. It's not like it's your left arm or anything.
that seems way too high of a premium to me. I can insure my 13K of camera equipment and my 5K of computer equipment and still have liability insurance for about 150 a year.
Few tips:
-Don't ever put something of great value on the seats or anywhere else where you can see it from outside! (I'm not the first to tell you this, but it's truly very important!!)
-Get a bag that does not say: "very expensive stuff in here, come and steel it..".
The point is that laptop baggs, DSLR baggs, or what so ever are mostly very recognizable. People can immediately tell what is them and they know it's of great value. An advice is to buy a regular backpack.
Something you might also wanna check is surveillance camera's if there are any near the spot where you parked your car.
-Don't ever put something of great value on the seats or anywhere else where you can see it from outside! (I'm not the first to tell you this, but it's truly very important!!)
-Get a bag that does not say: "very expensive stuff in here, come and steel it..".
The point is that laptop baggs, DSLR baggs, or what so ever are mostly very recognizable. People can immediately tell what is them and they know it's of great value. An advice is to buy a regular backpack.
Something you might also wanna check is surveillance camera's if there are any near the spot where you parked your car.
This is exactly why I carry my MBP everywhere, into restaurants, malls, stores etc... if I must stop on the way home. My family thinks its a bit much but unless someone sticks a gun in my face and takes it, I'm not letting it out of my sight.
There ought to be someplace people can donate to handle tragedies like this. Most people cannot afford to lose $3700. I would donate $50. The problem is some lowlife would fake a theft to scam the money. Truly sad!
Cheers,
Heh. Yeah. I should go back and complain.
55 bucks for 3.2k in computer equipment is ridiculous!111!!
this laptop will self-destruct in 5 seconds
Assuming you have everything backed up and your MBP is then stolen. Is there a software you can install that can be activated by you that will wipe out your hard drive and corrupt the laptop in a way that it can not be ruined (e.g. overheated)? Of course if it accidentally gets activated while you're working on it, that would be upsetting. Maybe I've seen too many Bond films.
Assuming you have everything backed up and your MBP is then stolen. Is there a software you can install that can be activated by you that will wipe out your hard drive and corrupt the laptop in a way that it can not be ruined (e.g. overheated)? Of course if it accidentally gets activated while you're working on it, that would be upsetting. Maybe I've seen too many Bond films.
I did go to the Apple store twice about this - to see if they could do anything. I was on a trip and didn't have the serial number with me so I went to a local Apple store (around 5 min away) to try to get it. They wouldn't give me my serial number without my credit card number, which changed right before that. Needless to say, the guy (Apple store employee) was a complete jerk to me.
Anyways, I went back to the apple store after I got home and had my reciept. Haven't heard a peep from them... Whatever.
Also, my car insurance DIDN'T cover the theft, but my home-owners insurance DID. To the OP - talk to your home-owners insurance if you have it. Mine was a $1000 deductable
. All in all, I got a check for $600 for a stolen backpack, TI89 calc, 9 month old blackbook, various supplies. They also broke a car window, and bent the door very badly(they tried to crowbar the door and pop the lock... didn't work on an '08 GTI). $3000 damage to the car. That made my trip miserable.
I have no home owners insurrance... so ya I'm really screwed.
I did go to the Apple store twice about this - to see if they could do anything. I was on a trip and didn't have the serial number with me so I went to a local Apple store (around 5 min away) to try to get it. They wouldn't give me my serial number without my credit card number, which changed right before that. Needless to say, the guy (Apple store employee) was a complete jerk to me.
Anyways, I went back to the apple store after I got home and had my reciept. Haven't heard a peep from them... Whatever.
Also, my car insurance DIDN'T cover the theft, but my home-owners insurance DID. To the OP - talk to your home-owners insurance if you have it. Mine was a $1000 deductable
Read this from July issue of Mac Life...
The article spotlights software you can buy to help recover a stolen laptop. Orbicule Undercover for $49 sounded really interesting to me. Maybe this is stuff we should all be buying and loading on our laptops to prevent a "next time":
http://www.maclife.com/article/tip_day/3_ways_recover_stolen_laptop
The article spotlights software you can buy to help recover a stolen laptop. Orbicule Undercover for $49 sounded really interesting to me. Maybe this is stuff we should all be buying and loading on our laptops to prevent a "next time":
http://www.maclife.com/article/tip_day/3_ways_recover_stolen_laptop
Rental insurance is so unbelievably cheap. Everyone should have it.
I also have riders for my camera gear (any type of loss) and riders for accidental loss of my computer stuff (laptops - even spills are covered).
$20 a month.
Painful lesson to learn, but hopefully some others can be spared the same fate.
I also have riders for my camera gear (any type of loss) and riders for accidental loss of my computer stuff (laptops - even spills are covered).
$20 a month.
Painful lesson to learn, but hopefully some others can be spared the same fate.
Did you get Apple Care on it? If so, call Apple and tell them all you did was try to "rebuild your desktop" in OS X and the computer dematerialized.
I feel for you, man. The exact same thing happened to me several years ago with my 15" 1GHz TiBook (a $3,500 BTO laptop at the time). But mine was left in the hatch area of my car (not exactly visible) while I was running up to my friend's apartment to grab him for lunch. In the matter of minutes, someone had broken into my car and stole the laptop and my Kenwood stereo. No homeowner's insurance and I was still paying for the laptop. Wasn't fun at all...
So, I know you've heard this before, but NEVER EVER leave anything of value in your car, no matter what. A thief can see you putting something in your car from far away. I won't even leave my $130 Nintendo DS in my car. Following this rule for myself, I haven't been a victim of theft since.
Secondly, get renters home owners insurance NOW. It has to be about the cheapest insurance policy you can get. My apartment is covered for up to $200,000 (more than adequate) and I only pay about $25/month. Typically, this type of insurance will cover belongings stolen out of your vehicle with a deductible.
So right now, the best you can really do is hope things work out, although the odds are against you. I reported my serial number as stolen with Apple, yet my laptop was never recovered. Hard lesson learned.
Except in Japan, interesting (from what I've heard) is that theft & property crime are 'almost' non-existent there. Not so here in the West.
Never been there myself but have friends who teach English over there.
Wow. That sucks. I bought my wife a new Macbook for Christmas 2006 and less than 2 months later it was stolen from her car. We filed a police report with the serial number but heard nothing from it and she had to wait till Christmas 2007 for me to buy her another one.
sorry to hear that
definitely your worst day ever man
No offense but, short of Jesus Christ hearing your prayers and coming down and handing it to you himself, you are never gonna see it again
Well, you live you learn,
definitely your worst day ever man
No offense but, short of Jesus Christ hearing your prayers and coming down and handing it to you himself, you are never gonna see it again
Well, you live you learn,
He might not be rich and therefore can't afford 2 laptops in a short span of time.
I feel really bad for you. I'd be climbing the walls and kicking myself in the butt for months.
- Go to the Police and file a report
- Call all your local pawnshops and inquire if they have any MacBooks for sale
- Check Craigslist for new MacBooks on Sale
- Check Ebay for new MacBooks on Sale (I realize its a long shot)
- Always put your electronics in your trunk (which can only be opened with a key) when you leave them in your car.
You've got your serial number from your purchase, so if you're able to find you MacBook in any of these places you can legally prove it is yours and retrieve it.
I'm hoping you're able to retrieve your stolen MacBook and that the perpetrators get what's coming to them.
I hope that was a joke. Not everyone can afford to buy a new Mac whenever they please.
A lot of newer cars have trunk areas that are accessible by folding down the rear seats (and only some of these cars have lock cylinders on the rear seats). While the trunk might be the safest place to keep electronics, it's not exactly fail-safe anymore with a lot of cars.
My GTI's rear hatch can't be opened from the outside without the key fob, but there's still two other ways to get into the cargo compartment provided a thief were to break in through one of the windows (switch on the driver's door and fold-down latch on the rear seat). So, I don't keep expensive stuff in there. Not even for 5 minutes.
Yeah, but that's assuming the thief knows the computer's in the trunk!
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On a side note, I just got insurance for $100. Too lazy to bother my homeowner's insurance.