MacBook Air stumps TSA agents, owner misses flig

Yahoo Tech ^ | Mar 10, 2008 | N/A

[Ezekiel]

How about you have Muhammad bomb for your screen saver when TSA orders you to turn on laptop -—— KA-BOOM!!!!

"It was the will of Apple."

[chadwimc]

Rap sucks! The only thing worse than rap is country music...

[Erik Latranyi]

As someone who flies every week, TSA does the best it can with what it has to work with.

They see tens of thousands of laptops at major airports. The Mac Air looked different and that throws up a red flag.

TSA did the right thing. Booting it up is the correct procedure.

The author must have been cutting his flight time close to miss his flig.

[Jet Jaguar]

Not bad... ;0)

[Minipax]

[AppyPappy]

As usual, Mac is a generation behind in hardware technology

[buzzer]

“Misses Flig?”

Misses “ht” :-)

[jimtorr]

......USB port to plug in an external hard drive.

Who needs ports, especially the USB variety? The Mac Air was designed to use wireless connections.

[dennisw]

I’ll be surprised if they can make those prices stick in this kind of economic environment

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

“They haven’t been TSA approved. Probably shouldn’t be permitted,”
This statement could only come from a government-fascist. Too much power is given to the government. It has created thousands of little dictators who enjoy harassing citizens.

[driftdiver]

“This statement could only come from a government-fascist.”

Oh cmon its only coming from a high school educated guy making $15 an hour who can screw up your life with a single word.

[Liberty Valance]

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Is that a Cray?

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

[Jet Jaguar]

Nice post.

Pookie,

One more for your consideration.

[Liberty Valance]

Is that a Cray?

No. It's the iBM iFlig. ;o)

[colonialhk]

Sorry they used that one on peanut butter
MORONS!

[Dick Vomer]

if the folks in the TSA could read or handle tech equipment....... they wouldn't be working at the TSA.

I love it that one of the American Idols was a TSA inspector. Just beautiful...

[AFreeBird]

It hasn't happened to me, but I was reading a DIY tech blog where someone had made one of these:

Only using D Cell batteries.

Basically, it's an external power source with USB interface, that you can use to recharge, or extend run times of Cell phones, iPods or any other electronic device that can be charged via USB port.

Parts are a couple of resistors, some caps, inductors, diode, 5V booster.

Apparently the TSA thought it suspicious.

The guy was able to convince the TSA of its purpose, but had to do a lot of explaining on why you'd want to have a portable backup power supply for a device that normally lasts 3 hours, but you're on a 20 hour trip.

[gridlock]

The biggest drawback, as far as I am concerned, with the the ASUS eeePC is the teeny tiny keyboard. But with flash drives and SD cards, capacity is no problem.