The commentary makes it seem like ESPN meets a game show.<p>In Miami, people steal laptops and they just shrug it off, turn the alarms off, and go back to work. Saw two get stolen while waiting for a repair a few months ago. Eventually they called a guard to write it up.
The article reads like a viral ad:<p><i>The magsafe cords detached instantly, offering no resistance and leaving power sockets undamaged.</i><p><i>Finally, the stiff unibody shells means that the villains could grab the notebooks one handed from a corner with no flexing, and no risk to the internal circuitry, the tough aluminum bodies resisting the jostling clanks inside the sacks.</i>
"Empties store"? I suspect the writer has never worked in retail electronics or even bought anything from an Apple store. Display models are a fraction of merchandise on-hand.
Funny that this other heist came up on rolfe-winlker's blog. Quite a contrast.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk-1O31r1Q8&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk-1O31r1Q8&feature=playe...</a>
heh, reminds me of the nvidia prototype video device thing they demonstrated at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. It had a power cord and a tv cord attached and nothing else. It was kinda around the corner from where the nvidia employees were and there was nobody around. I stood opposite thinking how easy it would be to grab and run... :-P<p>Obviously I didn't, but it would have been interesting to own a prototype handheld video thingy. (they were using it to demonstrate their embedded gpu for smartphones, it was coool)