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What's In Your Laptop Bag?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the cool-toys-i-must-possess dept.

Mudzy writes "TheTechZone is running a cool human interest story showing what their chief editor has inside his laptop bag. Some of the stuff in there could really make a geek salivate - like a mobile VoIP adapter and the world's smallest wireless router."

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  1. True Story by crache · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was in highschool a few years ago when I met on of the most respected men in my life. He came to the school in the form of a "nice" Bofh. Living in a small town I was the only person I knew at school that used linux, until that year when I met my two geek friends. The one I'm talking of in this story though had been a consultant, computer tech, special agent in the military for drug enforcement and a soldier. This is the type of guy that has many stories, and all so good you could sit and listen to him for hours even if you didn't know him. We hit it off and since then have kept in touch although he and the school parted ways, in a not so friendly way.

    My sister had been wanting a laptop for a few years, and my dad can be cheap when he wants to be, which is most of the time. He had an employee working for his tree and lawn business who was willing to sell an imac to him for 50$. So he bought the laptop and gave it to my sister for $DEC25(christmas, yule, etc)

    A few days after christmas, my sister comes to me with a check she found in the laptop bag for about 150$. "Don't you know this guy?". It was indeed signed by my tech friend, and I asked if I could have it.

    I figured this was reasonable, since my fathers employee also did work for my friend on the side, and once he had him clean out a computer shop in town when they moved the business. Everything he thought was junk he left at the shop.

    So next time I saw my friend I showed him the check and asks in a very serious tone where I had gotten it from. I told him about the laptop bag and how my father had boughten it off from the mutual employee.

    To finish the story, the laptop was stolen!

    It was a happy ending though, my sister got to keep the laptop and the guy still works for my friend.

    Moral: you never know what you're gonna find in a used *bag
    *laptop, purse, tool, etc.

  2. What do you mean, laptop 'bag'? by david.given · · Score: 3, Interesting
    A while ago, my brother, who's an archaeologist, had to take his new, expensive Toshiba T1200 around various places in the middle east. He considered buying a laptop bag, but realised that carrying a bag with a 'STEAL ME NOW' sign on it probably wasn't such a good thing in the seedier quarters of Cairo.

    What he eventually ended up with was a bible case. It was cheap, provided excellent protection, was just the right size (this was an A4-sized notebook), and above all else --- who wants to steal a bible?