@timcore@mstdn.social That would work and would be a common approach to security. Make it too expensive to retrieve.
However, in the case of a laptop, destruction would be easy and 100 percent effective. If you have a friend who works at a foundry with an EAF (electric arc furnace) or a steel mill, have him take it to work and chuck it in.
Wait until about 1:10 in the video when they wind the power up to 40 MW and lower the electrodes.