Glendale:
why should any passenger trust the airlines to take care of their important stuff? They can't, and many don't. Some probably do.
Once the story of a few missing laptops or brief cases goes viral, which they have already in this overly connected age, the impression is that the airline industry can't be trusted. You can't fight that by being outraged on PPRuNe.
As a passenger, you take care of yourself. You have to, nobody else will.
There a ladies' purses that are larger than the small over the shoulder laptop carrier that I limit myself to on my very rare trips in an commercial airliner.
I'll take that with me, thanks, and let the outraged on PPRuNe continue to waste bandwidth.
@peekay: thanks for that explanation on systems and your views on evacuation.