01-16-2008, 02:13 PM
I used a Kensington lock on my laptop in the library.
With my particular major, it was not unheard of for people to camp out at the library through most of the day and night sometimes, researching and writing and occasionally napping.
It was also not unheard of for someone to notice an unattended laptop and walk away with it.
It took all of perhaps 30 seconds to wrap a cable around a table-leg and lock the laptop to it. Given the length of the cable, a thief would have to upend the table to take my laptop.
'Seemed like sufficient deterrent for a casual thief.
With my particular major, it was not unheard of for people to camp out at the library through most of the day and night sometimes, researching and writing and occasionally napping.
It was also not unheard of for someone to notice an unattended laptop and walk away with it.
It took all of perhaps 30 seconds to wrap a cable around a table-leg and lock the laptop to it. Given the length of the cable, a thief would have to upend the table to take my laptop.
'Seemed like sufficient deterrent for a casual thief.