JackClark

Came back to a stolen laptop yesterday, not great, could have been worse. Thankfully I'm an Apple freak, full backup at home on the Time Capsule, all my media here on my iPhone. The Apple store called me to let me know the replacement can be shipped to Spain and there's a sale on Friday, which is nice.

I'm pissed off about buying an upgrade now because it was still a great machine at almost exactly four years old. But the new MacBooks do look a bit tasty.

The MacBook has 'back to my mac' on it, fingers crossed it'll pop up so I can have a word.

jura11

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No very good news,but hopefully you have sorted replacement.

timmyajmy93wrx

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what bum holes

Always loved mac laptops just to pricey as i only browse the web & listen to tunes!

any info where it was nicked so people can keep an eye out in the area/ebay for it?

Rob_Impreza99

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Someone nicking an Apple product, it sounds like we have a complete nutter on the loose who needs to be captured for his own sanity.

Seriously though, if its an insurance replacement then it could all work out well in the end with you getting a bang upto date replacement.

Midlife......

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Just curious............what's "back to mac". Does it e-mail you to tell you it's been nicked?

Shaun

Ant

Ive got a MacBook for sale need in gone quick £100

ChefDude

£100 for a macbook?! is it actually just a photo of a macbook?

Ant

It's jacks ....ssh it's a secret

Rob_Impreza99

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It will be easy to tell if its Jack`s, the desktop background below will give the game away.

JackClark

I'm in Spain, so doubtful the ******* will be paying you a visit.

It'll be claimed on my travel insurance, definately not new for old, but a bonus.

Back to my Mac allows me remote control of the machine. If they switch it on near an open network I can find it's location then use the webcam to tell them I'm coming.

ChefDude

i should have got that lol - i did, inexplicably, wake up 02:30 this morning :Grrr:

JackClark

Just ordered a 15" i7 MacBook with Hi-Res Display, insurance will pay a percentage and Apple gave me £80 off, it's a business purchase so I can claim tax as well. Just need to get my Time Capsule over here and wait for delivery, can't wait, thanks thieving ******.

Scooby Soon!

Where did you leave it if you don't mind me asking? I am away at the moment and have the same problem I have a laptop and an iPad worth in total about £1500 new, where the hell do people leave this stuff when away from home?

I lock both in my suitcase if I have to leave them in the hotel and never show them Outside my room but i know one day they will be gone.

I checked a hotel the other day and the room I viewed was still occupied, the person who was staying had a MacBook of some sort open but turned off and they had left the hotel for the day, do people really do this?..

Ant

When I've worked away and taken my laptop, I've always took my laptop with with me in the van/car.I'd prefer to replace nicked clothes rather then my mac

JackClark

I'm staying in a house, it was a plain old burglary. It's a tiny village and the ****** who did it left fingerprints and blood.

hodgy0_2

sorry to hear that, very irritating indeed, does the MAC use encryption on the hard disk, and did you have it enabled?

i got a scare earlier this year when I thought i had lost a 100gb external hard drive, I hadn't but encrypted it as soon as I found it

our new corporate laptops come with encryption

JackClark

OS X does have encryption, and I do use it.

A remote wipe would be a nice touch, but stlll no sign of it online.

Trout

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Same - it is fantastic. Video processing takes a quarter of the time it did on my last MBP

And the screen is lovely!

JackClark

There was blood everywhere, quite satisfying. He broke a double glazed panel to get in.

Trout, I went for the anti glare screen, now I'm kind of remembering that I prefer the glossy, which do you have? Anyhow, whatever it is no doubt I'm going to love it, those extra couple of inches at 1680 by 1050 have got to be stunning.

JackClark

MacBook arrived today, bang on time, phone call prior to arrival and all. Not bad for a UK MacBook delivered to Spain between two bank holidays. Nice work UPS.

Loving the machine so far, Mobile Me worked perfectly for syncing my Email, Contacts, and Preferences even with my crap internet connection and I can restore my back up next week. Nice work Apple.

I hope you enjoy your bag of Heroin as much as I enjoyed my old MacBook you Thieving Junkie ******.

Trout

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I have got the matt screen - I like the glossy screen to look at but it is not very practical!

Hi res screen is excellent!

pimmo2000

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How did you come back to it, if its stolen ?

Seriously though that's really ****, I assume someone broke in or something ?

JackClark

I wish I did come back to it, in fact I spent the next two days looking for it all over the house. As much as I'm loving this new one, my old one was very special to me, maybe sad but I spent a lot of time during four years looking at it, and it still looked good.

Plain burglary Pimmo, I'm in a tiny village so we're pretty sure we know who it was.

My back up drive is flying over tomorrow, won't be long until I can have my media on my new machine.

The matte screen is cracking Trout, I nearly didn't get it, but sat here with the sun behind me I'm very pleased I did.

JackClark

Almost 12 years since I was forced to update my MacBook, today it finally died, my fault for not cleaning it I suspect. What a great machine it was, RIP.

silver-sub

12 years!

johno01

did your old one ever reappear again via an open network?

JackClark

Unfortunately not.

IdonthaveaScooby

Is it worth stealing a Mac now - with its Touch ID ?