Macbook Stolen In D1 - Help!

mawk

hey all
Mods id appreciate this being left here for a little while so people might see it.
My sister has just had her house entered and among some other stuff her macbook stolen. she is horrified because it has a huge amount of study and work data that she needs on it for her livelihood

Its a white 13inch macbook and the serial number is w89461n98px. If anyone here sees it somewhere or gets offered to buy it, could they please post or pm me.

Im sure some reward can be arranged.

landsleaving

That's pretty sh*t. Hope it turns up OP.

And ignore all the people who tell you she should have bought a PC...

MagicMarker

This is why you back stuff up.

admiralofthefleet

mawk wrote: »

hey all
Mods id appreciate this being left here for a little while so people might see it.
My sister has just had her house entered and among some other stuff her macbook stolen. she is horrified because it has a huge amount of study and work data that she needs on it for her livelihood

Its a white 13inch macbook and the serial number is w89461n98px. If anyone here sees it somewhere or gets offered to buy it, could they please post or pm me.

Im sure some reward can be arranged.

thats what happens when you say cork is the real capital

Hookah

Apple should be able to track it for you.

jimcoolding

Typical thieving, junky, Dublin scum.

Hope you find it. Although they have probably watched porn on it so you might want to desterilise the keyboard if you get it back. They probably also have an std.

MoodeRator

landsleaving wrote: »

That's pretty sh*t. Hope it turns up OP.

She should have bought a PC...

Good luck to your sister on this OP, but why oh why here in AH?

Compton

MoodeRator wrote: »

Good luck to your sister on this OP, but why oh why here in AH?

because a lot of people read it?

mawk

MoodeRator wrote: »

Good luck to your sister on this OP, but why oh why here in AH?

highest traffic, most people to see it.
also most people to be unhelpful.

cson

http://images.piccsy.com/cache/images/apple-zombie-horde-80821-530-370.jpg

Those guys took it I'd guess.

joshrogan

been sold for drug money already.

cson

I've had to bite my e-tongue here about joking about the 'entered' bit. :eek:

DrHLecter

not much to be done im afraid, you could try offering a reward with no questions asked if the data is that important.
but still, dublin 1....it could be anywhere by now.
maybe apple have some tricks up their sleeves, try their websites or helplines.

(maybe they could have something similar to a puk code to just disable it)

MoodeRator

did it have any distinguishing marks? or missing keys? missing "up" key?

geetar

at least you have the serial number. im sure apple could put it to good use. maybe track it when it connects to the internet next? good luck.

mawk

MoodeRator wrote: »

did it have any distinguishing marks? or missing keys? missing "up" key?

no missing keys but probably some black marker on the side. down by the cd drive or so

starbelgrade

mawk wrote: »

no missing keys but probably some black marker on the side. down by the cd drive or so

I only just noticed that now that you mention it.

How do I clean it off?

phasers

On an unrelated note, I don't know why people are so skeptical about preowned computers. I just bought a preowned Macbook from some guys in D2 and it works perfectly!

Dionysus

jimcoolding wrote: »

Typical thieving, junky, Dublin scum.

Yes! hehe. The thread is off!

tallus

jimcoolding wrote: »

Typical thieving, junky, Dublin scum.

Hope you find it. Although they have probably watched porn on it so you might want to desterilise the keyboard if you get it back. They probably also have an std.

Scum are scum... doesn't matter a toss where they come from.

OP sorry to hear about the theft. You could keep an eye out on adverts.ie. Hope she gets it back.

!MAVERICK!

When you get it back make sure to buy a Kensington lock.

Cosimo Salvatore

<snip>

PrincessLola

Someone stole my friend's laptop once,it was 7 years old, the screen was cracked and half the keyboard didn't work, we laughed so hard at the idea of some scumbag trying to sell it.:D

Dionysus

mawk wrote: »

hey all
Mods id appreciate this being left here for a little while so people might see it.
My sister has just had her house entered and among some other stuff her macbook stolen. she is horrified because it has a huge amount of study and work data that she needs on it for her livelihood

Its a white 13inch macbook and the serial number is w89461n98px. If anyone here sees it somewhere or gets offered to buy it, could they please post or pm me.

Im sure some reward can be arranged.

Be very careful with what you tell your (scumbag) insurance company. As I posted here a month ago, we were robbed and along with all our stuff they robbed our tenant's laptop etc. Being far too honest for our own good, we told the insurance company and they said that the policy was invalid because there was a fundamental change in the policy because a tenant was now living there since the policy was taken out and the insurance company had not been informed. The tenant in question was a professional person in her 40s so hardly a greater risk on the policy. But the bastards that are insurance companies will use anything to get out of paying up.

I'm sorry for your troubles. I bought a WD external hard drive the day we were robbed. It was only by the grace of God that my laptop was not in the house when they broke in. Otherwise all our digital photographic memories from our life together would have been lost - things that were much more valuable than anything else robbed.

tallus

Dionysus wrote: »

Be very careful with what you tell your (scumbag) insurance company. As I posted here a month ago, we were robbed and along with all our stuff they robbed our tenant's laptop etc. Being far too honest for our own good, we told the insurance company and they said that the policy was invalid because there was a fundamental change in the policy because a tenant was now living there since the policy was taken out and the insurance company had not been informed. The tenant in question was a professional person in her 40s so hardly a greater risk on the policy. But the bastards that are insurance companies will use anything to get out of paying up.

I'm sorry for your troubles. I bought a WD external hard drive the day we were robbed. It was only by the grace of God that my laptop was not in the house when they broke in. Otherwise all our digital photographic memories from our life together would have been lost - things that were much more valuable than anything else robbed.

Apologies for going off topic, but sorry to hear about the break in D.

Been there twice myself in the last 18 or so months... it's hard to get over it to be honest. I still come home expecting the place to be broken in to again every single day despite the fact that it's almost a year since the last break in.

!MAVERICK!

Can someone tell me if Apple are able to track this macbook, how will it work ?and if they do track it,can the OP just have the Gardai charge into the property searching for it?

biko

Post in your regional forum please - Corkonians, Waterfordians and Belfastians do when their stuff gets stolen.
Hope you get it back.