Powerbook and Airport Security
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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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.
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.
Originally posted by mac's girl
airport security sucks!!
So does Rivendell! Nyah!
too bad i didnt take a picture of me with it... i coulda sent it to that ipoding site
Originally posted by Eugene
So does Rivendell! Nyah!
hey i live in NY, thats not a whole helluva lot better.
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.
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.