Storing a laptop in the dorms?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>As an incoming freshman I have a question about laptop storage!
I will be staying in a dorm in one of the res halls and I'm wondering what's the best/safest way to store a laptop when you leave the room without it? I have heard a lot of talk about these laptop locks (though I still don't understand how they attach to the table @_@) which attach the laptop to teh table so it cannot be easily stolen. However would it be a better idea simply to put it in a drawer or someplace out of sight? </p>

<p>What would be the best way to store one of these?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>dt_</p>

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<p>In your dirty laundry.</p>

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<p>Yeah the thing about that is, I might accidentally throw my dirty laundry into the .. washing machine. Laptop = owned. D:</p>

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<p>i tied my lock around my bed post</p>

<p>i think it would be a huge PITA to hide my laptop everytime i left my room, just make sure you and your roomate/s always close the door when you guys leave</p>

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<p>you mean I can not just leave my laptop on my desk? I actually have to hide it in my own dorm room?</p>

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<p>Just lock it by looping the lock around your bedpost or something else that is fixed. Im sure you can figure it out since you got into Cal</p>

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<p>mostly, the locks are a visual deterrant. if you have it locked down via a bed-post or table, someone who wants to steal a laptop would be deterred from yours and instead choose that other laptop that isn't locked down. if he really wanted to, though, he could, with proper equipment, quite easily still steal your laptop, though i'd say that this is quite rare in the dorms with locked down laptops.</p>

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<p>Do people bring file cabinets and just lock all their valuables in there too?</p>

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<p>Someone on your floor stealing your stuff is an irritating thought, are students really willing to go through someone elses stuff for a valuable?? If they do than they shouldn't expect much mercy when the person finds out ( speaking of which, have yall seen fights in the dorms, that would be kinda too intense...)</p>

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<p>Befriend and get to know your roommate(s) and floormates as well as you can. Friends usually don't steal each other's valuables. Also use common sense and try not to leave your door open and your room unattended with your laptop in plain sight (at least not in the beginning of the year when people aren't familiar/friends with each other yet). I always kept my laptop in the keyboard drawer and used an external monitor for display. Whenever I left the dorm, I would just close the laptop and slide in the drawer, and most people wouldn't notice the laptop at all.</p>

<p>Shah Rukh Khan - Nah, dorm drama is great, and watching a couple (drunk) guys wrestle/fight in the tiny halls is always entertaining. It's all part of the dorm experience ;)</p>

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<p>Electronic</a> door unlocker | PIC Projects | MCU project everyday</p>

<p>Just customize the configurations to your closet, and put it in your closet.</p>

<p>or</p>

<p>Put it in...a storage chest! I used to put toys into my toy chest and lock it, and was imagining bringing it to CAL...but it was unfortunately donated along with my toys a couple of years ago.</p>

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<p>use a lock. Ppl got there laptops stolen the first week in my unit</p>

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<p>A laptop lock or a storage chest-type of lock that Onigenghiskahn is talking about?</p>

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<p>hmmm... they should give us a drawer with a lock on it haha... oh u could put it in ur closet and lock it with those steel bike lock things... but this may be extreeeme</p>

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<p>I say just befriend everyone on your floor, no one steals from friends!!</p>

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<p>Looking at this,</p>

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<p>it looks like notebook locks require a hole in the table to work properly... do the tables in all the dorms have holes? And if they do, would it be considered safe to just leave the laptop locked to the table, exposed, (as long as the dorm room's door is actually locked)?</p>

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<p>Laptop locks suck. I have yet to find a model I can't get through in less than ten minutes, sometimes without even using any tools whatsoever. That being said, if there are two laptops one unlocked and one locked... a thief is going to take the unlocked one.</p>

<p>Not all thieves are students. Random people sometimes wander in to the dormsa.</p>

<p>
[quote]
speaking of which, have yall seen fights in the dorms, that would be
kinda too intense...

[/quote]

this is Berkeley, not... damnit, making a stanford joke here doesn't make any sense at all.</p>

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<p>^^ you're damn right it doesn't. :p</p>

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<p>I had probs with my bike tire getting jacked but never my laptop. My parents got me a lock, but did I ever use it? Nope. General rule on anything is: don't keep your door propped open if no one is in there, and trust your roommate to do the same. If you are super worried, just put it out of sight in your room when you leave. People steal stuff in plain site, not stuff they have to actually find. . . .</p>

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<p>So what would be a smarter way to keep the laptop from getting stolen from the dorm room: locking it to the table with a laptop lock (but thus making it pretty clearly visible on top of the table) or tucking it into one of the drawers on the table?</p>

<p>(Do the tables have holes for the laptop lock? Also, do they have drawers? >_<)</p>