If something like this happened to me, I'd take it as an opportunity to upgrade my laptop to something better. If you consider it from his point of view, he jus

If something like this happened to me, I'd take it as an opportunity to upgrade my laptop to something better. If you consider it from his point of view, he just dropped a couple hundred for hardware that was stolen. If he just gave it back, then he'd have lost all his money for nothing. So he's willing to pay a bit extra to get a 160GB hard drive to duplicate the important data and give it back, because hardware is replaceable, but data isn't. It'll make him sleep easier at night, knowing he didn't completely do the wrong thing.