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I would NEVER check a laptop, business or personal. The bottom-line is, don't check in anything you can't afford to lose. My wife told me a story of how someone she knew was "forced" to check in her laptop because her carry-on luggage was too heavy. Sure enough, the laptop was stolen.

All these stories just reinforce my impression of US domestic services; I have never ever encountered anything remotely resembling your difficulties when flying international flights. Richard Branson put it quite aptly: I can't remember his exact words, but they went along the lines of...

^^ Reminds me of a Mad Magazine piece I saw many years ago: it suggested that airlines might give a rebate off your ticket if you didn't check-in any luggage, and showed a guy wearing several pieces of clothing (e.g. you could see several sets of shirt cuffs sticking out from his jacket's...

The last two times I flew out of the US: LAX was a nightmare, with long queues to clear security, and it was a mess in the holding areas, with insufficient seating to hold people waiting for delayed flights. Seattle-Tacoma, on the other hand, was a breeze: the late-night 1am flight to Taipei...