How protect my new Macbook Pro Retina Display without Kensington lock ???

OMG what do I do now, I have one on order 3-5 weeks but this is 😮 no lock. This is so important to me at work we I leave for lunch I am always afraid that my current mbp with 500 SSD drive will be gone when I am back... 😟

Apple please do something for this!

Hi David,

Never let it out of your sight (probably not practical).

Get a metal case which can be locked and tethered with a locking cable.

David.Pico wrote:

Usually in sight but sometimes (eat, toilet ...) it is impossible...

Understood.

I don't understand why Apple did not add a kensington lock. Not need much space...

They have taken what was already an almost impossibly thin engineering marvel and made it significantly thinner. I wonder if, because of this, some compromises to the internal frame had to be made therebye not allowing a locking point to attach to anything "significant" inside the MBP, and, if it was simply tethered to the outer casing, it was be all too easy to snip/break away, making it almost useless.

It called a Rottweiler.

Ciao.

I'm also missing some security lock option on the new MacBook Pro... Wondering if someone comes up with a third-party solution, e.g. some hook through the vent holes?

+1. This needs a solution BADLY!

$2k-$3k + shiny jealousy-inspiring design + small & light + no security protection + cooling requirements make wrapping in a lockable case bad + sticky fingers = very stupid designers.

A security plate system is the best I can find tonight.

http://www.securitykit.com/laptop-plate40010.htm

That might work for a person with a permanent desk in a public or semi-public building, although it doesn't seem very useful for people who are visiting a location or share desks in their home office. (I can't see myself being able to use that if I'm stuck in a hospital bed or other not-secure-from-theft-risk place for a couple of weeks.) It doesn't seem to meet my anticipated needs for mobile security rather than fixed workstation security.

I found a 3G iPad was easier to manage in hospital, far easier to hide too..

Best..

True, but I feel things dissappear too easily to keep anything expensive unattended in a hospital or doctor's office for even a minute let alone while asleep or drugged. (Not that I've ever needed to stay overnight in a hospital, but there's always a first time and it's likely in the next few years.) I do use my iPad2 WiFi version in the waiting rooms, though, but iPad's are more for consumption and short messages, not for doing productive work that needs access to & juggling of a full range of reference materials on the computer. It's hard for me to go more than a couple of days with just an iPad.

I'm guessing there must have been some structural reason they didn't include it, but that's just a guess.

In any case, though, I very rarely used it. Even locked up, I never felt good about leaving my MBP unattended, even on a good tether. They can be cut without too much difficulty and can, apparently, be picked with nothing more complicated than the cap of a cheap Bic pen. Plus, leaving your machine unattended leaves it exposed to some clumsy oaf coming along and knocking it off the desk, or getting curious and looking at it and then spilling their coffee all over it, or deciding that maybe they can yank it off the cable, or the like. I would never leave my precious MBP unattended, even tethered! With the newer models so much thinner and lighter, picking it up and carrying it with you isn't such a hardship.

I found out about www.maclocks.com after I was looking for a lock to my MBA for school, was googling around and ran into this review http://youtu.be/SvK9wd1dIqY for Maclocks Macbook Air Lock and Security Case Bundle, they actually got some really nice products

Try to look here: http://www.maclocks.com/index.php/mac-locks.html

Not sure they already have a lock for the new MBP but I guess it's just a matter of weeks 😎