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TSA to Screeners: Watch Out for MacBook Air
March 26, 2008 11:35 AM
The MacBook Air seems to be causing everyone trouble lately. First, it was Charlie Rose, who tangled with Manhattan asphalt (and lost) to protect his sexy-skinny laptop. Now, the laptop’s innards have proven so "mysterious" to airport screeners that the TSA has sent out notices to advise its employees on Apple’s newest gadget.
News of the potential issues with the MacBook Air at airport security checkpoints first surfaced a few weeks ago, when blogger Michael Nygard regaled gadget geeks with the tale of missing his flight because airport screeners didn’t believe his MacBook Air was a real computer. (Nygard didn’t answer several requests for comment at the time.)
The TSA responded in kind recently on its blog, which the agency launched in January of this year in a bid to open up communication with passengers. (Complaints have steadily come in.)
On the new blog, "Blogger Bob" writes about seeing the story and doing his own security screening of the MacBook Air.
"My suspicions were correct. The MacBook does look completely different than your typical laptop or DVD player," he writes.
Though Bob won’t say how it looks different, citing security reasons, he does say as a result of his experiment that TSA’s 45,000 screeners will be sent X-ray images of the computer.
--Ashley Phillips
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