Never trust the information you hear on radio shows--it's often wrong, as here.Taking a company laptop (or cell phone, or pager, or etc.) home on a regular basis for  work or at the employer's behest does NOT give you ownership of that item, any more than the company would come to own a radio you happened to bring into work and leave in your office day after day.On the other hand, if you like your laptop, since the value of 1-year old laptop is obviously less than a new one, perhaps your company would sell it to you for a reasonable price; that's what a company I used to work for would do. You could certainly ask, if interested.