I don't know many people who would just go "eh, forget it" for a Macbook at an anonymous repair shop whilst it was still laden with emails and photographs and other personal content. Even if he can shrug off the cost of the laptop itself, I'm reasonably sure that Hunter Biden - long the target of the GOP ire, remember - or at least a lackey would have been back to that shop about 30 seconds after someone realised what had happened.
Assuming Hunter was happy with being the family punching bag. The messages released so far can be interpreted that he resented being the pity party of the biden namesake.
Ok, he resented being the pity party and instead of finding a sympathetic reporter to give some anonymous background or quotes to, he goes cross-country, leaves a laptop in a tiny repair shop, and crosses his fingers that it somehow comes out without making him look like a dick? I mean, this is sillier than the current explanation.
