Sheriff's 2 cents on best laptops to buy

When buying a laptop consider the real chance if it is stolen.

Toshiba & Dell have phone #'s for police to call for assistance with identifying owners of recovered laptops. I called Sony and they finally returned my call 13 days later and they have no number for police to call. In short if I recover a Dell or a Toshiba I will call, if it's a Sony I don't even bother.

Consider using the Juststolen.net database, a free service started by a police officer in Ma. and any officer nationwide can access. This database is for registering or posting stolen or lost items. This is a news story that aired in Ca. about the juststolen.net database.

http://cbs2.com/video/[email protected]

 

The site has also been endorsed by Tom M. and by someone from the City of XXX Police Department.

 

I just stumbled across this thread. This is actually a useful bit of info (even if the topic isn't really named properly, lol)!! I think it deserves a Bump. It's fairly rare, but a stolen laptop would be a terrible thing. If it will help the police recover your hard-earned hardware...why not?

I think I'll definitely register my new laptop here, when I get it.

 

Yea...just don't expect it to be there when you get home one day (since they'll know what it is and where it is)...I'm skeptical at best.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=80637

 

no matter what measures are taken, getting a laptop back after it is Stolen is highly highly unlikely.

 

I think we can pretty much write this up as spam. The OP has only posted 4 times (one post deleted by another mod) and they all promoted this "service." Once a place like that has your serial number and all other info, it makes it a lot easier to "transfer" the ownership of that device...then suddenly you'll be screwed too.

Truth be told: I wouldn't trust this site unless someone legit and pretty high up in the tech chain started saying this would be useful. It's a great idea, but this needs more legit sources backing it up.