Notebook theft
December 26th 2008 05:43
This blog has been a bit on the outer for the last couple of weeks. Partly because of the usual additional busyness of Christmas, and partly because I've been less energetic than usual as a result of all the fuss over my prostate biopsy and its aftermath. (Aftermath might be a rather overloaded word to use in the circumstances, but it'll suffice.)
Anyway, in an attempt to bring it back into public view, as it were, I'm posting two posts in a row. (Wow! says the world.)
Apparently, iSuppli principal analyst for computer platforms Matthew Wilkins said recently. apropos of the fact that notebook sales have finally overtaken desktop sales: "This marks a major event in the PC market because it marks the start of the age of the notebook."
(Mr Wilkins obviously likes to use 'marks' in his statements regularly. Or maybe he was caught on the hop and didn't have time to use more elegant phraseology.)
Regrettably, the downside of this is that notebook thefts have increased 48% in the last two years.
One of the good things about a desktop PC was that it wasn't that easy just to walk off with. For a start there's all that danged cableling, and the fact that you've got to find out where the owner has the thing plugged in (and even then you might unplug the heater or the CD player or a host of other possibilities). Then the keyboard goes swinging behind you as you lift the hard drive up and away; the monitor remains firmly attached (especially if it's one of the older style ones) and mice, speakers and sundry other attachments (in my case a hub and a wi-fi thingamebob) all refuse to unloose themselves with speed.
Yup, it's certainly easier to walk off with a notebook.
Which is why we clung to ours constantly when we were overseas; which is why it frequently travelled inside a backpack that was firmly attached to either myself or my wife. Lifting that notebook would require lifting one or other of us as well.
Therefore, it strikes me that the answer to notebook theft is to attach a person to the notebook. This will ensure complications for the thief, and possibly also a good solid biff in the eye.
Anyway, in an attempt to bring it back into public view, as it were, I'm posting two posts in a row. (Wow! says the world.)
Apparently, iSuppli principal analyst for computer platforms Matthew Wilkins said recently. apropos of the fact that notebook sales have finally overtaken desktop sales: "This marks a major event in the PC market because it marks the start of the age of the notebook."
(Mr Wilkins obviously likes to use 'marks' in his statements regularly. Or maybe he was caught on the hop and didn't have time to use more elegant phraseology.)
Regrettably, the downside of this is that notebook thefts have increased 48% in the last two years.
One of the good things about a desktop PC was that it wasn't that easy just to walk off with. For a start there's all that danged cableling, and the fact that you've got to find out where the owner has the thing plugged in (and even then you might unplug the heater or the CD player or a host of other possibilities). Then the keyboard goes swinging behind you as you lift the hard drive up and away; the monitor remains firmly attached (especially if it's one of the older style ones) and mice, speakers and sundry other attachments (in my case a hub and a wi-fi thingamebob) all refuse to unloose themselves with speed.
Yup, it's certainly easier to walk off with a notebook.
Which is why we clung to ours constantly when we were overseas; which is why it frequently travelled inside a backpack that was firmly attached to either myself or my wife. Lifting that notebook would require lifting one or other of us as well.
Therefore, it strikes me that the answer to notebook theft is to attach a person to the notebook. This will ensure complications for the thief, and possibly also a good solid biff in the eye.
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