I have a couple of laptops. One for work and one for personal use and don’t want to carry it on me. Can I chuck them in the checked in baggage and be done with it? Is there any prohibition for that? If it helps, I am flying out of Melbourne Tullamarine on Hainan Airlines to Abu Dhabi - UAE with a stopover in Hainan (Haikou) - China.
Further updates as many have asked about battery size. One laptop is a MacBook Pro 14” and the other is a MacBook Air 13”. Both less than 100wh I would imagine. I might even have to carry a Lenovo Thinkpad that’s around 53Wh. I’m going with family so we have about 6 bags. I can spread the laptops across the bags. The reason don’t want to carry on with me is that we already have stuff that will reach allowable limits of 10kgs. Things like iPads and Switch. And basic stuff that we need to carry as a family. But if push came to shove I’ll just suck it up and carry on.
Ignoring the lithium battery issue, and the actual regulations, consider that the checked in baggage will be treated with the same level of care that routinely destroys guitars and suitcases. Maybe you dont want to have your laptops dropped on the tarmac.
Also check with your work, you may have rules that prevent you putting work laptops in checked luggage, as its easiest for them to be stolen from there (or if your really paranoid, easiest for malware to be installed without your knowledge)
I’m not concerned about handling as it’ll be the original packaging and my work is my own business. So again, no qualms about it being lost. As I have enough security on it (FileVault, BitLocker, etc). So all security concerns can be considered non-issues.