Apple's Macbook Air was designed to maximize portability for a notebook computer. With its lightweight and thin design it makes it easy for any traveler to slip it into their bag and take it on a plane…assuming you can get it past the TSA.
TSA questions patron over Macbook Air. Credit: Androog/Flickr.
Recently, blogger, programmer, and frequent traveler, Michael Nygard, was passing through a TSA security checkpoint when he was pulled aside. The on duty security guards were unfamiliar with the Macbook Air and found it to be a suspicious device.
The lack of common notebook components on the exterior of the Macbook Air caused confusion amongst security. Nygard recalls, "I'm standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me. 'There's no drive,' one says. 'And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be,' she continues."
The confusion caused by the technologically unaware members of the TSA caused Nygard to miss his flight. It wasn't until a younger member of the staff, one who was familiar with Apple's new subnotebook, explained the product's exterior and pointed out the solid state drive on the x-ray to the rest of the security team that Nygard was released.
So for owners of the Macbook Air, remember this while waiting in line at an airport security checkpoint: Shoes off, no liquids over 3 ounces, and the tech spec sheet from Apple's website that describes your new Macbook Air.
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