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Applecare won't save you from getting shot over a laptop.



Neither will explaining that your laptop is useless to a thief. If someone is going to shoot you over a laptop, they're going to shoot you over a laptop. Obviously it's not worth killing someone for a $3k laptop though (any more than you see someone shot over a Honda Civic), so they won't. Otherwise we'd all be wearing body armor when we write a thesis in Starbucks... which (unless you're American) is a distant fantasy.


Thieves learn what cars they can steal and they will learn and have learned what devices they can steal, too.

> Obviously it's not worth killing someone for a $3k laptop though

Which has happened, and it's a lot less worth it if it's $10 of scrap.




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