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Is it safe to leave a laptop for a while in a condominium common( study) room?


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Just make sure you lock it, Windows key + L if windows, unlikely to get stolen if just nipping back upstairs to make a coffee or take a dump, done that in many airbnb condos with a shared study room. If you are still concerned though a few hundred baht Kensington lock from Lazada will be enough of a deterrence.

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15 hours ago, topswijaya said:

Dear all,

 

Some condominium have a common/ study room.

Is it safe to leave a laptop for a while in a condominium common ( study ) room? The reasons are, for example, going to toilet, or you forget to take your laptop with you.

Will someone steal it? How about CCTV?

Thanks

Quality visitors asking for obvious answer to an insane question. 

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16 hours ago, topswijaya said:

Dear all,

 

Some condominium have a common/ study room.

Is it safe to leave a laptop for a while in a condominium common ( study ) room? The reasons are, for example, going to toilet, or you forget to take your laptop with you.

Will someone steal it? How about CCTV?

Thanks

Only if you leave your bulging wallet on top of it so they steal that instead.

But I'd like to thank you for the question, which I referred to my wife. I've learnt a lot of new Thai swear words!

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There is another aspect to it.

Like: This is my place, and I will leave my computer and accessories here. So that when I come back, maybe hours later, I sit on the same place, my place!

 

We had a woman in our condominium who did just that. She spread out her computer and accessories over a big nice table and then she wasn't there for most of the time. She treated the common area as her private space and obviously she was very upset when some people told her not to occupy that space all day for nothing. Obviously, she also used the power for all her devices and nobody should dare to use her power outlet.

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I apologize for all the snarky comments. Too many people wished they were stand up comics and, for lack of ANY talent, missed that boat and wound up on this forum.

 

There are many broke, desperate folks in the world (NOT just Thailand) who would jump on the opportunity to snatch a laptop. Even if you lock the software down, thieves can remove the hard drive, access all your files, then sell the hardware (drive, ram, etc.).

 

Take it with you, don't let it out of your sight. Chances are you have too much  sensitive info on that machine.

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17 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

It is not save as there is a risk somebody takes it.

How big is the risk? Can't tell as I don't know the condo management, the people who visit the place and the security.

"How about CCTV?" What you want to know, what condo are you talking about?

Do they have CCTV?

Will the CCTV work if they have it?

If it is there and it works, will the staff show it to you?

What if it is the staff that took it?

 

Why take the risk, in any such environment anywhere in the world?

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17 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

I've read some stupid questions on this site before but this one takes the biscuit.

Agree, nobody can answer this question, there's thieves, there's  dishonest and poor people and not poor but light fingered people in every country.

 

What other answer was the OP expecting? 

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