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Hmmmmm...sorry but your possible answers make no sense to me.
By the arrest of Moussaoui the other cells had to assume that that the FBI will scan the laptop, because this would be the normal procedure in such a case.
And as far as i remember there was no press release that the search warrant for the laptop was refused, so the cells could not know if the laptop was searched or not.
And remember that the FBIHQ told the field officers not to do any further investigation on Moussaoui, who was already identified as well-connected to the islamist scene by the french intelligence!
Some weeks ago, the phoenix memo by FBI agent Ken Williams has also been ignored.

"As for all the warnings, you have to remember that prior to 9/11 all terrorist threats to aircraft were thought to be hijackings for hostages and demands"
And why the G8 summit in Geneva was then protected by SAM?

Remember, it was already clear that:
-AQ already had plans to attack the US (WTC, Sears Tower, CIAHQ) with kamikaze aircraft (Murad interrogation in 1995)
-AQ was hot for WTC after the 1993 bombing ("Next time we will do better")
-There was precise intelligence warnings from around the world that AQ was planning something with hijacked aircrafts late 2001
-The phoenix memo titled "Osama bin Laden supporters attending civil aviation universities/colleges in Arizona" & Moussaouis arrest

You don´t have to have an Einstein to connect the dots, because the dots are already connected.
It was a clear picture.

And so it is a mystery to me, why on that tragic day it took one hour to scramble F16. There are clear directives by the FAA and the military for aircraft-highjackings and in every case in the last decades they were followed: Scramble within 10 minutes.

But not on that very day with 4! simultaneous highjackings. With all the clues this is remarkable to me and so the quote of an defense official "I don't think any of us envisioned an internal air threat by big aircraft.I don't know of anybody that ever thought through that" is a bad joke.