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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $35.24
You Save: $ 14.75 (30%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Targus
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Targus
EAN: 0092636988074
Feature: Easily Attaches to Your Carrying Case, Luggage, or Any Notebook with a Security Lock Slot
Is Autographed: 0
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Label: Targus
Manufacturer: Targus
Model: PA400U
Publisher: Targus
Studio: Targus
Variation Description: Motion Detection w/ Audio
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Easily Attaches to Your Carrying Case, Luggage, or Any Notebook with a Security Lock Slot
Retractable Steel Cable Retracts Into Plastic Housing At The Press of a Button
Re-Settable 4-Digit Combination Lock - Up to One of 10,000 Unique Combinations Available
Led Indicates Alarm Status
Alarm Is Activated When Cable Is Severed or When Motion Sensor Is Armed and Triggered
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Editorial Reviews:
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Now you can prevent notebook theft, the fastest growing fear among mobile professionals today. With the Targus Defcon 1 on guard, you can relax in airports, restaurants, and other public places. This revolutionary anti-theft system guards your notebook in more locations and situations than any other device you can buy. In fact, it's the only system that combines stainless steel cable with motion sensor technology to create a combination locking system that easily attaches to your notebook or carrying case in any setting.Defcon 1 is compact, lightweight and easy to use. You just attach it to your case or notebook and turn it on. If someone tries to steal your case or cuts the cable, a 110-decibel alarm will sound to let you and everyone else know that Defcon 1 is on alert.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Unfortunately, all these bad reviews are true...
Comment: I had the same problem - lock "magically" reset itself and the combination I had been using for 1 year no longer worked. Fortunately, I was able to cut it off in 3 minutes with a hacksaw. Unfortunately, I am out $10 for the hacksaw and $30 for the lock. Here are the instructions for cutting the lock off that Targus doesn't post on the website, but will email to you:
Obtain a hacksaw from a hardware store or similar location. Make sure that it has a high-speed metal cutting blade. After stabilizing the tail of the DEFCON CL in a vise, saw through the head. Do not try to saw the teeth of the DEFCON CL, it is much easier to begin sawing at the gap next to the cable attachment ring. After sawing all the way through, you will be able to take apart DEFCON CL and remove it from the notebook. This should take an average of 10 minutes.
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Summary: WARNING! This lock can be maliciously reset!
Comment: This and similar models are still for sale in stores, I can't believe it!
I've discovered how to purposely scramble the combo from a locked state, so I can believe it would randomly change its combo as well.
Targus tech support said they'd pass on the info to HQ but didn't care to take my contact info.
Unfortunately their new Ultra Max apparently has the same lousy lock design.
I would not buy a combo lock from them until they make fundamental changes.
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Summary: Lock autonomously decided "You didn't want that combination, anyway."
Comment: I used this lock A-OK for years. On Saturday 2008/09/27 I used it fine twice. When I wanted to unlock my notebook computer from the desk the following Monday, the lock acted as if I entered the wrong combination. I'm baffled. Now I have to cut it off. Will my notebook computer ever be rid of the lock dangling from the side? Now I'll look like a computer thief.
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Summary: Does not work
Comment: Bought one today to use on my new HP Laptop. It does not work. The 2 pawls will not spring out far enough to engage so you can pull it right off. If it does barely engage it still has not sprung out so you cannot turn the number dials to another setting.
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Summary: Krap with a capital "K"
Comment: My boyfriend has been using this lock daily for the past 4 months to secure his laptop at work. Today it decided that the combination he had set was inadequate, so it reset itself. Now we cannot get his laptop off his desk, which defeats the purpose of having a portable computer. We strongly suggest buying a lock that unlocks via a key. Do not purchase this lock.
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