MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security 550
Ant writes "MacNN reports that the thin design of Apple's MacBook Air is causing some confusion for the technically ignorant, according to one blogger who says that the ultra-portable caused him to miss his flight. When going through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport security checkpoint, blogger Michael Nygard was held up as security staff gathered around his MacBook Air, trying to make sense of the slender laptop/notebook. One of the less technically knowledgeable staff points out the lack of standard features as cause for alarm..."
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Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:3, Funny)
TSA has a hard job (Score:5, Funny)
Ooga Chaka (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently, the "spear with a lack of features" was cause for great alarm among the Ooga-Chakas.
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:4, Funny)
This is TSA: even water is a dangerous substance, except when you throw it away.
Re:Idiots... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:5, Funny)
good logic... (Score:4, Funny)
Humm, and I going to go to jail for that last comment, its hard to tell what's a crime any more...
Re:No surprise really... (Score:0, Funny)
goatse them (Score:4, Funny)
if enough people did it TSA agents would quickly lose their taste for looking at our laptops.
on a more serious note, has there ever been a record of someone attempting to sneak a bomb onto a plane via a laptop? no? then pay attention to real dangers pls just for once.
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:5, Funny)
wait...
Re:No surprise really... (Score:1, Funny)
You fail.
Real airport security wouldn't be that diplomatic.
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No surprise really... (Score:2, Funny)
I was going to ask if you talked to your mother like that, then I realized you must have asked her to type that out for you.
Re:Sounds like his fault (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No surprise really... (Score:2, Funny)
With that thin design... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:irony (Score:5, Funny)
Five Finger Shoes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:5, Funny)
And the in-flight movie? Executive Decision, in which the Bad Guy uses a Psion Series 3a as the remote control for a bomb on the plane.
*Did I mention that this was way before Sept. 2001?
Re:No surprise really... (Score:2, Funny)
They've got electrolytes.
It's what air travelers need.
- RG>
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:4, Funny)
Airport security manual (Score:5, Funny)
A) Strike with hand, grunt and run away.
B) Strike with rock, grunt and run away.
C) Strike with club, grunt and run away.
D) If first three methods fail strike passenger with club, grunt and run away.
Re:good logic... (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y [youtube.com]
I think that video speaks for itself about the uses Steve Jobs has in mind for his products.
I'd say these TSA guys are definitely on to something...
Re:Not always true (Score:5, Funny)
So, I was a middle-aged white male, paying cash at the last minute for a one-way ticket traveler, with an airplane headset and flying charts in my bag. How many times do you think I got the extra-special treatment?
Every. Single. Time.
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, I remember Executive Decision. As I recall it was the first Steven Seagal movie that was any good!
Re:With that thin design... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ooga Chaka (Score:5, Funny)
But with the new MacBook Air, I don't need to bludgeon my trout anymore. I can just pluck it out of the water with my newly developed mind powers and have it baked with a side of waterfowl before it even hits the ground. Yummers, pyrokineticly cooked duck! Thanks MacBook Air!
Appropriate Quote (Score:5, Funny)
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And I have great hair! Just ... not much of it any more.
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:-1, Funny)
Congratulations, you just described about 10000 different consumer items. No, you can't have my lunchbox.
The fact that the security personnel are so uninformed makes you feel *safer*? Wow, just wow. Insightful? Ha.
Who's dumber? (Score:5, Funny)
THIS is how you sneak stuff past security... (Score:4, Funny)
This dude is hilarious...
User's fault IMHO (Score:4, Funny)
The commercial clearly shows that it should be MAILED to its destination.
Re:Question about missed flight (Score:4, Funny)
Patience, my friend, patience.
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:3, Funny)
It could have been better. Ten minutes with him in the movie was a little long.
Re:Who's dumber? (Score:3, Funny)
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You must appreciate the IT Director who demands (and I mean vehemently demands) that all 5000 computers deployed MUST HAVE FEET.
Re:Idiots... (Score:4, Funny)
Actually only the detonator is in the laptop. The bomb is sold separately as a $99 external USB device.
Re:slashvertisement (Score:5, Funny)
How many of them did not involve drugs?
MAC Air having trouble with AirPort? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:3, Funny)
If you can fit more inside a MacBook Air than Apple claims, you're doing *really* well.
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Re:Ooga Chaka (Score:3, Funny)
Which part exactly do you object to?
Re:Question about missed flight (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ok - this is just getting silly! (Score:3, Funny)
If I call in colleagues and they all agree they they don't know what the hell is going on, we try to find someone who does instead of standing around staring at a computer.