Four Men Arrested Over Million-Dollar MacBook Heist

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 6, 2015 @12:27AM from the worst-way-to-tile-your-bathroom dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In January of 2014, Anton Saljanin was hired to drive 1,195 Apple MacBooks, valued at over $1 million, from a vendor in Massachusetts to a pair of high schools in New Jersey. The day after picking them up, he told police that the truck disappeared overnight while he slept. Later that day, he told police he just happened to spot the truck abandoned in a parking lot while he was driving down the highway. Unfortunately for him, detectives quickly realized none of these things could be true. Footage from CCTV cameras and cell-site records for his phone indicated he met with his brother and drove to another suspect's house, where they unloaded the laptops. Later, a fourth man helped them sell some of the MacBooks, often at steep discounts. The four men have now been charged in federal court for the theft.

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The Real Thieves, Though... by Bing+Tsher+E · 2015-09-06 02:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

The real thieves are whomever specified and ordered all those Macbooks for school kids. Overpriced status hardware that will mean nothing to rooms full of impatient adolescents. The theft victims are the taxpayers. I'm sure there's an Apple sales rep involved and some school adminstrator who got nice swag out of the deal.
Why not more reasonably priced hardware? Chromebooks or even some 'doze laptops. Apple branded stuff, like Coach handbags is for snobby individuals, not semi-enterprise settings like a school.
Here's your TCO cue, shills.