Lost: More than 15,000 laptops per week

LONDON - Business travellers in the US and Europe lose 15,648 laptops
per week, according to a study by Dell.

On Dell’s behalf, Ponemon Institute surveyed 3,034 business travellers
at 113 major airports located in the US, UK and Europe.

According to ITPro in the UK, Ponemon found that the airports with the
highest number of lost, missing or stolen laptops included Los Angeles’
LAX, with an estimated weekly loss of 1,200 and London Heathrow, with an
estimated weekly loss of 900.

Of those lost laptops, the survey found that 43 percent were reclaimed
in Europe, compared to only 33 percent in the US.

Ponemon attributed travellers feeling that they were either being
rushed, carrying too many things or worrying about flight delays as to
reasons why laptops are most commonly lost.

Worryingly, the survey found a high number of travellers who took no
steps to protect or secure the information contained on their laptops.

Fifty per cent of trusting US travellers said that they left their
laptop computers under the watchful eye of a fellow passenger, compared
to 42 per cent of UK travellers who did the same.

On Aug 5, 5:39 pm, Rob mine.com> wrote:

Rob wrote...

Hmm. Missus is there at the moment. She better not lose hers. We just bought it
before she left.

Reasons? More like excuses. They don't give any specific reasons as to why they
were lost.

Did they leave them in a separate carry bag and forget to pick them up? Or did
someone swipe them when they were not looking? Or did they fall off their
luggage carts and they didn't notice them?

My wife bought a carry on bag with wheels and retractable handle. It has a
laptop compartment and her Dell 13" notebook fits into it perfectly. The luggage
also has plenty of other compartments for things like toiletries and other
necessities that would be needed if your checked luggage went missing.

It would take an overtly, deliberate and somewhat stupid effort to lose such a
thing, other than having it forcibly stolen from you.