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Old Nov 22, 2013 | 12:05 pm
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Originally Posted by Need
Too heavy? My wife does it sometime. She has an old 17" laptop which is quite heavy and not worth much money even if stolen. If she is with me, we keep it in carry-on, but if she is by herself, sometime she will check it in. It is just too heavy for her to lift up to the overhead bin and she doesn't like to ask others for help.
The laptop may not be worth much, but the information on the hard drive could be worth a fortune to a thief. She needs to get something she can carry on. A 17" is a desktop replacement.... At least have her run bitlocker (Win 7+) and/or truecrypt and utilize strong passwords. If she is running XP then look at enrypting the whole HDD.
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