Powerbook and Airport Security

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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Okay, having never travelled through an airport with a labtop, I'm wanting to double check on sticking an aluminum powerbook through x-ray machines/security. Should be fine I would assume, but you know the saying, assume only makes an ass out of you and me. Thanks in advance.

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    No problems. They'll have you remove the laptop and place it by itself in a bin so they can get a clearer picture, and they *may* ask you to show that it is operative, so have it booted and asleep for quicker access.
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    asenasen Posts: 93member
    Yeah, its fine. The only place I've been asked to switch it on is Germany.



    If they do insist, and if you have a camera as well, you may be 'invited' to prove it works by taking a photo. Again, I've only encountered this in Germany.



    So, what do you do with these random photos? You send them to this website, that's what.
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  • Reply 3 of 11
    I gone through airport security several time with my PB, and, knock on wood, I have had no problems. Also, I have been asked only once to turn on my PB.
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  • Reply 4 of 11
    airport security sucks!!
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    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,575member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mac's girl

    airport security sucks!!



    Amen to that. I'm always worried that they will damage my PB the way they toss those bins around. Also, at the exit from the x-ray machine the bin slides down this lone track of rollers bouncing and vibrating along the way.



    I always ask them to be especially careful with my PB and to please don't break it. (Not sure if this helps or if it makes them more inclined to treat it rougher.) At the exit side I try to catch it as quicly as I can before it bounces down the rollers.
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  • Reply 6 of 11
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mac's girl

    airport security sucks!!



    So does Rivendell! Nyah!
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  • Reply 7 of 11
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    for the 2002 superbowl in New Orleans I had an iPod and the security in the little airport we were leaving from didn't know what it was... so I had to turn it on... its odd tho because its really not that hard to Feign a functional device if you just make the screen turn on...



    too bad i didnt take a picture of me with it... i coulda sent it to that ipoding site
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  • Reply 8 of 11
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Eugene

    So does Rivendell! Nyah!



    hey i live in NY, thats not a whole helluva lot better.
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  • Reply 9 of 11
    VERY IMPORTANT: CLEARLY LABEL YOUR LAPTOP



    Put your name on a sticker on the bottom of the Powerbook (preferably somewhere where it does not get warm).



    Going thru Airport Security these days is well.. an experience...



    I never thought I'd leave my ibook at a checkpoint..but I did. I had my name on the bottom though so they called me up on the Airport PA system and I was able to just go pick it back up.



    I read an article that hundres of laptops are abandoned every year at airport security checkpoints.
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  • Reply 10 of 11
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    Airport security is the illusion of safe. I've never had any problems with the xray but I did get an extra dead pixel during a flight from Paris to Zurich.
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  • Reply 11 of 11
    keshkesh Posts: 621member
    Yeah, if you follow a few basics, it shouldn't have any problem.



    1) Leave your laptop in sleep mode. That way, if you're asked to show them it works, you don't have to boot it up and then wait for it to finish before you can move on to the plane.



    2) Most airports have special laptop baskets. You'll have to take the laptop out of any case you have, put it in the basket and let it run through the X-ray machine. So, don't leave the laptop buried in the bottom of your bags, or in a complicated laptop case.



    3) Wait patiently at the other end of the machine for your laptop. Depending on the other bags around it, you might have a minute or two before it comes out, as the screeners stop to examine a bag in the machine.



    4) Be patient and polite! Trust me, getting irate with the screeners will just delay you even more, and likely upset the other people around you. And lord knows, they don't want to be there any longer than you do.
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