TSA Doesn't Want to See Your Little MacBook Air
If it's smaller than standard-size, airport security doesn't need you whipping it out.
If you've travelled anywhere going through an airport, you'll know that the security scanning procedures now demand that you take your laptop out of your bag and place it in a plastic bin so that it can be scanned separately.
According to CNN's talk with a Transportation Security Administration spokesman, however, the 11.6-inch MacBook Air, along with the iPad, do not need to be removed for your baggage when undergoing scanning.
One early adopter of the iPad who went through airport security said that she was told that her Apple tablet didn't need to be scanned separately because it "doesn't have a CPU or hard drive."
Of course, the MacBook Air doesn't have a hard drive either, instead relying on solid state storage. It does, however, have a CPU – albeit an old one. But that's not the official reasoning from the TSA.
The reason that the 11.6-inch MacBook Air can stay in your bag is because it is "smaller than a standard-size laptop," which puts it in the same category as netbooks.
Despite having nearly the same internal design, the 13.3-inch MacBook Air doesn't get the free pass and must be removed from one's bag.
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barmy.
well that's a fantastic reason to mod a bomb into an ipad.
I'LL DO IT FOR ALLAH!
proletarian, im guessing ur not a yank ; P
can someone explain why a hd or cpu means u need to be checked but only if its a big one? im assuming that an explosive device could be put inside most electronic devices, hell maybe thats where all the WMD in iraq got to, all smuggled out in tablets by apple jihadists.
No, i'm a White English Man, though i assume the central intelligence agency have already invaded my home and removed my computer in clear plastic bags.
I hope they have fun sifting through 4 terabytes of data xD
Personally i would like to take america off the map and place it in the bin along with their puppets in Whitehall.
This is England, not Air Strip One.
well u can go buy a map and cut America out, then go destroy anything u own that is a product of America or produced by american companies and revel in your new found yankless existence, alternatively u could say something a bit more moderate like- "i disagree with American imperialism and their lacking of an ethical foreign policy" -
suggesting the removal of an entire nation stinks of radicalism, im also British like yourself and im proud to be reserved and such.