Every week 1,200 laptops are left at LAX. Most, never to be seen by their owners again. What can you do to ensure you will be reunited with your precious machine shall you ever misplace it?

To start, make sure your contact information is visible somewhere on the laptop. Include your name, phone number and e-mail address, so if an honest person comes across it, they will be able to get it back to you easily.

If you’re a frequent flyer, constantly going through airport security, you should definitely invest in one of the new airport friendly laptop bags. By using one of these bags you don’t have to pull your laptop out of its case; they are designed to comply with FFA regulations, and can be scanned at security checkpoints. If you keep your computer in the case, you are less likely to forget it while you are getting the rest of your carry-on items, and putting your shoes back on.
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Another option to protect your laptop is to use tracking software. We recommend LoJack to our clients. The $39.99 per year subscription is well worth it. If your computer is lost or stolen, the next time it is connected to the Internet the software will work to determine its location. Optionally you can setup the software to remotely delete all of the data on your laptop in those circumstances. With a $1,000 service guarantee, LoJack is worth the money.

Our last recommendation is to back up your data. It is NECESSARY if you have any valuable data on your computer you would be sad to lose. We’ve seen far too many clients in tears over lost bank documents, business plans, photos, etc. because they lost their laptop or it crashed. (Remember, 100% of hard drives will crash.) So save yourself the headache of lost information-backup your data. It is affordable, and worth every penny.

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