Share Your Laptop Tricks

If you're one of those who live with their laptop, share one of your secrets. How do you disguise the laptop when traveling, or do you? Do you have any anti-theft tricks you can share?

Backup for laptops, especially those laptops so well traveled they have their own passport, can be tricky. How do you backup? Do you use an online backup service, or wait until you hit the office? Or do you carefully save everything to a USB hard drive that you keep in the case with the laptop?

I know there are insurance companies covering laptops against loss or theft. Does your company buy insurance for laptops? Or do you cover the expensive executive laptops while self-insuring the less expensive worker laptops?

When I spoke to the NSTA in Houston early this month, I asked who had a laptop. Almost every hand went up. Then I asked who had two or more more laptops. Almost every hand stayed up. That's a lot of laptop love.

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