Agree with ESG about keeping the stuff with you. As for the "Laptop Bag", a much travelled client gave me her laptop bag in part payment. She reckoned that it marked her out as a potential "snatch & run" victim.
With something as small as my half-size Vaio I favour a beat-up old sports bag that doesn't look interesting or a plastic Waitrose "Bag for Life".
And as for checking it when you're pax, what else you going to play with on the flight? Or isn't that allowed? [typos!]
[This message has been edited by fobotcso (edited 18 February 2001).]