Right now, the middle-eastern carriers with the ban provide gate-checking and overall a decent service to handle the banned laptop. Overall it added 10 extra minutes each before and after I landed to handle the laptop thing.
But I'm not sure if every budget airline from Europe will offer this service. They might actually force you to just check the bag and charge you for the checked bag. Plus, how will this be handled on transfers specially on seperate tickets. Will they force you to go through immigration and get your bag checked. Or you just miss the flight if you arrive on a seperate ticket with laptop in the carryon.