[Clara Lou]

What happens if the little darlings sell the things for drugs, booze, or sneakers?
Our laptops have special identifier tags with bar codes, etc., affixed to the top. If you try to take them off, it will probably break the top. If you should get one of them off, there's some kind of tattoo left on the top where the label was. Also, the police have been around to all of the pawn shops and shown them the laptops with the tags so that they know not even to bother with trying to buy and sell them. There's some sort of reward for turning in a stolen laptop. Also, you have to log in on the laptop with a preset password. In other words, they just aren't worth the effort.

[dljordan]

"Also, you have to log in on the laptop with a preset password. In other words, they just aren't worth the effort."

That could be bypassed fairly easily unless the password was specific for each laptop and then it could still be bypassed. But, as you stated, it wouldn't be worth the effort.