Powerbook was just stolen

benbaked

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• Jan 4, 2008

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Somebody stole an older Powerbook G4 out of our office today. I have the serial number, is there anyway that I can track the whereabouts of the laptop, provided the thief tries to use it instead of selling it? Thanks.

 

Cheator

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• Jan 4, 2008

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Not that I can think of without installing a tracking system. Damn that sucks dude, sorry to hear that..

 

Midnight Dream

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• Jan 4, 2008

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Contact Apple, as they would be the one who could best help you in this situation. I hope you get it back!

 

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benbaked

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• Jan 4, 2008

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Thanks for the advice, I will try that.

It was an older 400 MHz Titanium, kind of beat up, but still I should've known better then to leave a thuggish-looking homedude unsupervised for even ten seconds.

he wanted an application... Damn thugs.

 

Kendan

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• Jan 4, 2008

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That sucks. Check out this program for future use:

http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/


Now check out this dumb thief: http://billmacewen.com/blog/2007/09/24/name-that-theif/


Good luck in getting your stolen laptop back.

 

PhysX

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• Jan 4, 2008

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unless its being stolen for whats on it, the theif could "if they knew anything about computers", just format / install an os and it would be fresh right ? so technically its useless software ? or am i missing something.

 

Kendan

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• Jan 4, 2008

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PhysX said:

unless its being stolen for whats on it, the theif could "if they knew anything about computers", just format / install an os and it would be fresh right ? so technically its useless software ? or am i missing something.

Click to expand...

This is from the undercover FAQ

What if someone does a clean install of OS X on my machine?

You can prevent this by installing a firmware password. You can find the firmware password utility on your Mac OS X Tiger DVD (in /Applications/Utilities/ on the disc). Make sure to reboot your Mac after enabling the firmware password.