25 iMacs stolen from SE College

bastic · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:52

Hey,
if anyone hears anything about cheap iMacs being on sale please be aware that there were 25 machines stolen from my work place - college in SE london on Sudnay.

So outline of whats gone: 12 x New iMac (2013), 13 x Old iMac (2007). Here is the info for the new iMacs.
IMAC 21.5 /2.7QC/GT640M
2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
1TB 5400-rpm Serial ATA Drive
NVIDIAGeFrc GT 640M 512M GDDR5

and old ones :

iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version: 1.20f4
if you notice anything suspicious, please do let me know
We will be looking on bay, amazon market place and gumtree as well...

new machines just got installed in place last thursday ;(

Skyboat · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:03

bastic said:
if anyone hears anything about cheap macbooks being on sale

Surely that should say iMacs?

bastic · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:06

Skyboat said:
Surely that should say iMacs?

thanks, changed

pyropetepete · 12 Aug 2013 at 12:59

CEX, Wants, Cash Converters and other. Facebook groups as well as they will show there

Mr-White · 12 Aug 2013 at 13:02

When we had macs stolen from the college I worked at, we provided the police with all their locations but by the time they bothered to look they had been moved on and then closd the case. The police then told us it was illegal for us to remotely connect to them due to data protect of the new owners. As they couldn't be bothered to do their job we still did, on one we manage to find out all his details from an insurance quote on the desktop lol

MW

bastic · 12 Aug 2013 at 15:09

I can provide serial numbers if needed as well

Ryan-3 · 12 Aug 2013 at 15:53

I remember our school had nothing to secure the iMacs, except a big shutter on the outside window, drawing attention to the room. But, the Mac mini's we had were all locked into cages in the desks :confused:

bastic · 12 Aug 2013 at 16:11

Ryan-3 said:
I remember our school had nothing to secure the iMacs, except a big shutter on the outside window, drawing attention to the room. But, the Mac mini's we had were all locked into cages in the desks

all new machines were secured with security cables to pianos there were on...pair of bolt croppers and road was clear ....

Ryan-3 · 12 Aug 2013 at 16:16

At least you had used something to help secure them, but they must have known what was securing them.

Insider information? Or just in expectation.

bastic · 12 Aug 2013 at 16:25

Ryan-3 said:
At least you had used something to help secure them, but they must have known what was securing them.

Insider information? Or just in expectation.

new machines were set in place on thursday and friday...
building was closed over weekend and they broke in first on saturday - to check if there is no one in (?)
came back on sunday.

they knew where to go...maybe they had some inside information...maybe they got lucky with new machines and were expecting only old ones ? hard to say...

girls from one of the departments added some extra heat saying they are missing 5 mac books pro....pulled all the strings and have located them and girls got proper telling off...

Ryan-3 · 12 Aug 2013 at 16:34

bastic said:
girls from one of the departments added some extra heat saying they are missing 5 mac books pro....pulled all the strings and have located them and girls got proper telling off...

Culprit right there.

bastic · 12 Aug 2013 at 16:41

Ryan-3 said:
Culprit right there.

those were only laptops they left behind

almost gave us heart attack by just mentioning mac book pro+missing ...

I wish police catches whoever did that...

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Aug 2013 at 11:12

No cameras ? Get security cams installed as soon as you can. Disappointed.

Mr-White · 13 Aug 2013 at 12:31

I don't think we really missed our, the guy in charge of the arts department bought them because "they looked nice". They ended up being glorified Youtube and Facebook machines for the students which I ended up blocking access to anyway lol

MW

PooBrain · 13 Aug 2013 at 15:34

Aahh apple computers, only good for one thing...selling!

korso · 13 Aug 2013 at 15:47

What college was this mate?

bastic · 14 Aug 2013 at 09:56

mrbell1984 said:
No cameras ? Get security cams installed as soon as you can. Disappointed.

we caught them on CCTV

Mr-White said:
I don't think we really missed our, the guy in charge of the arts department bought them because "they looked nice". They ended up being glorified Youtube and Facebook machines for the students which I ended up blocking access to anyway lol

MW

in our case, those machines are used to the extent

korso said:
What college was this mate?

not sure this information is needed.

all machines had asset tags on them, so if they try to remove them, there should be marks on them...unless they know how to remove them - I dont...

siege2 · 14 Aug 2013 at 12:33

don't forget vivastreet

korso · 14 Aug 2013 at 13:25

bastic said:
not sure this information is needed.

I live in s-hole in central SE London. I get people offering me dodgey equipment / electronics constantly. You wanna be more vague feel free, I just won't bother asking questions next time someone offers me a nice shiney iMac.

The SE of London can stretch from Waterloo to Ashford for some people.

Mr-White · 14 Aug 2013 at 13:55

bastic said:
in our case, those machines are used to the extent

Wow you used them for Instagram too ?

MW