When you purchase a product or serivce you usually are given the option to register as a customer. There are various reasons why manfacture do this.

• Marketing
• To Receive product updates
• Proof of ownership

If your laptop ever becomes stolen you’ll want as much help as possible to attempt to recovery the device. Registering a product or service allows to inform the manfacture that you have legal ownership of the laptop so if its ever recovered under a different owner the manufacture will know its stolen property. To reigster your laptop you’ll be ask to provide its serial number, which should be recorded as part of your asset tagging proceedure. You maybe required to provide further proof of ownership depending on the manufacture of the laptop.