Where do you keep your laptops?

[WDW~Lover]

I just came back from AKL villas, I took my Macbook Pro and had a very good cable lock. I did put it on the table there, BUT there is NO WAY due to the cable size that anyone would be able to slide it off.

 

[karters*mom]

I was thinking of bringing my laptop to download my pics at the end of the day. We are staying at all-star sports.not sure of the size of the safe there!

 

[iteachlit]

I was thinking of bringing my laptop to download my pics at the end of the day. We are staying at all-star sports.not sure of the size of the safe there!

We stayed at Movies in the summer of 2006. I'm guessing the safes there are the same size as those at Sports.

We were able to fit our video camera, digital camera, two cell phones and three Nintendo DS's in there. While that sounds like a lot, none of those items are exceptionally big.

I know that my MacBook (13.3" screen) would not fit in it, and it's a pretty small laptop.

Some resorts have larger safes, but I imagine that all of the All Stars have the same relatively small safe.

 

[WickedWench]

I just put mine in the top dresser drawer at the Poly. At AKL, we left it out on the table. If someone breaks into your room, I don't think it matters where you put it, except a safe. I agree, you can't compare leaving something on a stoller unattended to keeping something in a locked room. I don't think rooms are broken into that often, disney resorts are pretty safe.

 

[danny25]

a 15.4 laptop fit well in the safe at the pop but we always leave it in the room and never had a problem.

 

[rosegirl]

When there over Thanksgiving, we just locked our laptop in the suitcase at CSR each day before leaving for the parks. Never a prob. I posted previously that DH had left a ton of cash and several credit cards in the safe and forgot to lock it (door AJAR) and mousekeeping came and went and nothing was missing. We sweated it out on the bus back from MGM, I will admit, but all was safe (er, well, you know what I mean).

 

[Charleyann]

We locked our laptop in our big suitcase!

Charleyann

 

[bigbabyblues]

We've left ours in the safe at Pop, but I don't know what we'll do at ASMusic this year. I'm sure it won't fit in their safe, if it's the same size as the one we had at ASMo.

Probably lock it in a suitcase and pile dirty clothes on top of it or something.

 

[Shmily1]

We carry ours every time and I leave it out so that DH can use it when he goes back to the room. It's usually set up and ready to go on the table. No one has ever messed with it.

 

[chip007]

We carry ours every time and I leave it out so that DH can use it when he goes back to the room. It's usually set up and ready to go on the table. No one has ever messed with it.

Same here. We just left it out on the table.

Without my laptop there'd be no way I could even go on vacation. Instead, I was able to go, got up most mornings around 5 am, worked for a few hours, then woke everyone else up, and went to the parks -- the best of both worlds. (although maybe tired, sleepy worlds )

 

[WillCAD]

I've always kept mine in the hotel room. Never had any problem.

If your paranoid you could always wrap it in a sweater and place it in a drawer with the rest of your clothes or something but I've never had any problem with mousekeeping taking anything. It's not worth their jobs.

Yeah, thousands of people do this every day at hotels around the world.

But I think it's foolish. Theft DOES occur from WDW resort rooms, and leaving a valuable laptop out and unsecured is just asking for trouble.

We will be taking our laptop with us in November and we plan on locking it in one of our suitcases. Hopefully no one will be bold enough to walk off with the entire suitcase. I know ours will not fit in the safe.

Keep in mind - it's a HOTEL. There are people walking around with luggage all the time, it blends into the background. In fact, it's a lot less conspicuous to walk around with a suitcase than an un-cased laptop!

I was thinking of bringing my laptop to download my pics at the end of the day. We are staying at all-star sports.not sure of the size of the safe there!

The safes at the All-Star resorts are not big enough for laptops.

I just put mine in the top dresser drawer at the Poly. At AKL, we left it out on the table. If someone breaks into your room, I don't think it matters where you put it, except a safe. I agree, you can't compare leaving something on a stoller unattended to keeping something in a locked room. I don't think rooms are broken into that often, disney resorts are pretty safe.

People don't have to "break into" your room. Have you ever been there while Mousekeeping is working? They routinely put the swivel door lock thingie over to keep room doors open while they work - then go into the room next door. Sometimes they'll have two or three doors propped open while they work in one room, and it's child's play for another Guest or even a theif from off-site to simply walk in, pick stuff up, and walk out again.

And although most Mousekeeping folks are perfectly honest, upstanding citizens, there are a few who will succumb to tempation and steal stuff.

It is a very simple matter to buy a laptop locking cable and lock up your laptop to the wire shelves or a permanetnly attatched piece of furniture in the room. I also take the added precaution of stacking stuff on top of mine, just to make it less obvious that it's there. But my real insurance is the lock; they're not fool-proof, but they are like The Club - they make it just hard enough to steal a laptop that most sticky-finger folks will move on to easier targets. Like all those in this thread who leave their laptops sitting out on tables or in unlocked dressers or in ready-made stealable suitcases.

Just my humble opinion. It's your laptop; if you choose to risk it, that's your business. I prefer to take a few simple, basic precautions with my $1000 piece of easily transportable and easily pawnable technology.

 

[Hedy]

I need to bring my laptop for work but I am afraid of it getting stolen. We are staying in POR.

thanks

I lock mine in my suitcase.

 

[Colinsmom]

Assuming it is a company-issued laptop, you probably want to check with your IT department on their security policy regarding laptops. Our company policy is that it MUST be locked in a safe when unattended in a hotel room, and if a safe is not available, a cable lock (as described by many other posters) must be used. There is NO WAY that I'd leave a laptop (company or personal) sitting out unlocked in a hotel room - just because someone does it on their week-long vacation doesn't mean that yours will be safe.