On Saturday 08 August 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote:
I lost my laptop last month and one external hardisks and lost most the data even having external harddisk. It was my friend's lappy. Now he also lost data because of me !!
The "find stolen laptop" feature involves a rootkit in bios which phones home and is present in several branded laptops. So if you have the serial num. you might still get it back.