How to secure apple box

[maestromasada]

hi there lovely people!

sorry if this question is repeated somewhere in edugeek but I couldn't find any answers.

 

We just got 14 shinny Apple 21.5" and the minute I unboxed them I realised that I haven't order any means to secure them! I've got some security labels with our school post code to stick them at their backs, but how to you secure the macs to the desk? is there any special bracket or last-innovation-japanese tool that would do the trick?

 

Thanks

[mac_shinobi]

As in Kingston Locks ? Should have the ability to use kingston locks to physically lock them to the desks

[kmount]

Kensington Locks?

[mac_shinobi]

Kensington Locks?

 

That's prolly the one lol - doh

[Arthur]

Kensington locks are absolutely useless. Thieves will cut through them in seconds.

 

All of the iMac's in my school are secured with heavy duty steel desk clamps. I can't remember the make (I think it was INCO?), but both RM and KRCS sell them. We bought ours from KRCS. If you need any contact details just let me know.

[Carter]

Don'y buy a laptop lock. Get a desktop lock. This way you can loop the lock through the hole in the stand then wrap the lock around a table leg or something using a glued puck or the small metal bracket that comes with some of the locks. We have hundreds of computers here on site and I can't stand laptop locks. Laptop style locks can break easily if the computer gets moved.

[LukeC]

we use heavy duty bike lock on them all with a fixing point on the wall

[dayzd]

We use these Top Tec ones.

Unlike the RM ones listed above, they don't cover the hole in the stand, so you can still get cables through. They're not quite as discrete, though.

[maestromasada]

thank you for all the tips, they are most valuable. I'll go for the brackets suggested by Arthur.

I wasn't really thinking in the Kensington locks, they are not match for bolt cutters and besides can be open easily as this video and similar proves:

Break the kensington lock

[HodgeHi]

Kensington Locks are pointless. If the iMac lock is the same as the old mac mini design then all you have to do is twist the entire lock and the plastic around the lock widens allowing the lock to be removed any way. Only took seconds to remove it.

 

Didn't even need a loo roll either.

 

It's a design flaw with the mac mini really a not an(other) issue of the lock itself.

[rh91uk]

We;ve just brought a load of Apple iMac Secure Stands from inco-security.co.uk

[sjatkn]

We just got 14 shinny Apple 21.5" and the minute I unboxed them I realised that I haven't order any means to secure them! I've got some security labels with our school post code to stick them at their backs, but how to you secure the macs to the desk? is there any special bracket or last-innovation-japanese tool that would do the trick?

 

Try these Boss UK (Exact Security). If these do not quite satisfy then call them they made something unique for me a couple of years ago and then added it to their product line.

 

Edit. Looks like they changed their name since I last used them.

[john]

Could you just not think simple here and drill 2 holes in the iMac stand and bolt it to the desk through them holes? I certainly don't see the point in spending good money on bolting them down when they have cost silly amounts of cash to start with, 2 holes carefully made and 2 bolts through the desk, you could put nice polished domed nuts on the top and it would look quite smart.

[Sean-OC04]

As KRCS we have supplied these ones in the past...

 

Creation Security - Mac Solutions - CableLock.

[Arthur]

drill 2 holes in the iMac stand and bolt it to the desk through them holes?

How would this affect the warranty? Wouldn't this be classed as an "unauthorized modification"?

[Robbocop]

We also supply desk mounts for iMacs and I agree with several others above that they are better than cable locks. The ones we supply mount with a single bolt through the desk so that you can still swivel the iMac from side to side. I was GOING to comment that this type of stand should be good for iMacs as you upgrade them in future, but I changed my mind. There's no guarantee that apple will keep the iMac design, or that if they do the base "foot" will stay the same size and shape. Still, these locks really are good.

[john]

How would this affect the warranty? Wouldn't this be classed as an "unauthorized modification"?

I think I'd stand a very good case that it isn't, if I solidered a part to it yes, but its an aluminium bracket so its fine, if the bracket disintigrates then fine but you legally stand a good arguements case that say if the screen goes the stand isn't a part of the screen in terms of its function thus you cannot have made it fail.

[localzuk]

I think I'd stand a very good case that it isn't, if I solidered a part to it yes, but its an aluminium bracket so its fine, if the bracket disintigrates then fine but you legally stand a good arguements case that say if the screen goes the stand isn't a part of the screen in terms of its function thus you cannot have made it fail.

 

The product as a whole is what is being warrantied though, not just the electronic components. I don't think you'd win in an argument with Apple over this, as whatever way you look at it, you've altered the product without their authorisation.

[john]

The product as a whole is what is being warrantied though, not just the electronic components. I don't think you'd win in an argument with Apple over this, as whatever way you look at it, you've altered the product without their authorisation.

 

I do believe we are on the same grounds here as Bugatti saying that I need to take my shiny new Bugatti Veyron to them for Servicing otherwise the warranty is void. If they can prove that my local VW dealers servicing of my Veyron has resulted in its failure I need to stand the repairs myself (or have a loud argument in the showroom with the VW dealer), but if my VW dealer loves and cares for it as they should then if its a warranty issue they should cough up and fix it.