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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: gravdigr on January 20, 2010, 08:28:48 PM
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Well I found out sometime between sunday and today some lowlife dirtbag puddle of monkey spunk broke into my building and stole a friends laptop I was working on, a new hd lcd tv/monitor I got for working on computers, and my alienware M17 laptop. Needless to say I am pissed :angryfire:. They left $1,000s worth of tools and 2 hunting rifles which tells me it was probably kids looking for stuff easy to carry and trade as I'm sure in this town they were looking for something to trade for weed or pills. I doubt they even know what they have. I have a good idea who it was and when I find him I'm gonna put him in the hurt locker.
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That sucks man. I hope you find out who did it. Is there anyway to track your laptop if they get it online? Get an IP address from it when it goes online or something. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
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Bummer dude, having your gear stolen is horrible.
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Well I am sure you got space in the graveyard for them.
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I'm going to be posting a $150 cash reward in the paper for information leading me to the person or persons responsible for the break in. Loyalty among these people only goes so far when money is involved, someone will squeal.
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If they read the paper
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Oh yeah, it will get around. The paper is like required reading for these guys. They learn who got busted, who got busted and is out already (snitch), things of that nature.
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Well I found out from my insurance they will cover my equipment but not my friends laptop. Since she insisted on including in the police report that it was hers I can't lie to the insurance company and have her machine replaced. Luckily she doesn't blame me and due to the wireless problems her laptop was having (long story) she was thinking of just getting a netbook anyway. Unfortunately there is a $500 deductible so I will not get the full $2,000 my laptop was worth. Luckily a friend at iogaming.net just got a new desktop gaming rig and is selling me his 6 month old gaming notebook. Interestingly enough it is built on the same platform as my M17 except it has a higher resolution screen, better cpu, 2 1/2 years still left on the warranty, and dual 3870 GPUs as opposed to my M17s single gpu. And he's selling it to me for $1,400 + shipping. So I am a little happier now. I Did back up all the important stuff like my music, pics, vids, etc and my e-mail and browser passwords are password protected. I'm seriously thinking of using some form of hard drive encryption on the new laptop just in case this happens again, and getting a physical locking device to lock it down should I have to leave it in my building again sometime.
Funny how you take security more seriously after something like this happens. My wife always gave me Crap because I kept that laptop password protected on bootup and changed the password every month or so.
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Might be a better deal if you are spending that kinda money, $1594, Core i7, 8GB, blueray, and dual 5870's:
http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g73jha1-order-p-2731.html?wconfigure=yes (http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g73jha1-order-p-2731.html?wconfigure=yes)
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Might be a better deal if you are spending that kinda money, $1594, Core i7, 8GB, blueray, and dual 5870's:
[url]http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g73jha1-order-p-2731.html?wconfigure=yes[/url] ([url]http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g73jha1-order-p-2731.html?wconfigure=yes[/url])
Wow, that seems almost to good to be true. I haven't seem a laptop site that can come close to that deal. Have you ordered from there before?
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A friend just got one, its a pretty sweet deal. I might break down and get one when the tax refund comes in.
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I notice it says pre-order. Gonna have to contact them and see what that means. I need the laptop in time for the 200 man lan
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Yeah they were just released at CES, dunno when they ship
EDIT, Looks like late feb early march so its not looking like it will be available for the lan.