Macbook Air security access
 

We all know local TSA units will arbitrarily make their own policy. With that said, simple question:

Does TSA allow a 13" Macbook Air (not the 11", the 13") through security without taking it out of your bag?

Bonus round:

• Does TSA allow the new 15" Macbook Pro with Retina display (the one with flash memory and no DVD drive, so no moving parts) through security without taking it our of the bag?
• International standards - do other countries' security firms follow a similar policy? What country?

Thanks. I'd make this a poll (yes or no) if I knew how.

I have the 11 inch macbook air and I only remember once they made me take it out of a bag in a liberal state ;)

I have yet to have a problem with my 13" MBA placed in my roller board... knock on wood no one has seemed to care...

Seems like about once a month I gotta take it out of the bag, at various locations.

After having a laptop get fried by static by being in the tub sliding over a metal table, I always have my laptops in a soft case inside one half of those butterfly checkpoint friendly computer bags. Never had any hassles with the tub stackers.

I have a Dell Mini 9 with a SSD and no cd roms, so nothing moves in it.

Dca is 95% always take it out.

Everywhere else is 99% dont take it out when Im in uniform, out of uniform 75% dont make me take it out.

I never it take it out unless they ask, since their website says no moving part does not have to come out, but who are they to ever follow their own policy.

Some stations (Conus) even make me take my Ipad out of my laptop bag.
Heathrow goes nuts and practically disassembles my whole bag.
Oconus, alot of stations don't care.

Ummm, I'm 100% sure only 63% of that is correct.

I was told the iPad and the MacBook Air do not have any 'circuitry' so you can leave it in your bag. Others with the typical hard drive has to be taken out of the bag.

Im 99% sure that it was 95% accurate.

Point is I have a 9inch netbook with no moving parts, I never take it out, and go months without hearing a word. If I am out of uniform it is slightly more likely to be requested to be taken out. DCA seems to love to request it be taken out, along with an attitude about how its a system wide policy I take it out. It does say on the TSA website that you dont have to take out netbooks with SSD.

My favorite the other day was I was going through TSA in a small Carolina city and some woman was yelling at everyone to put the bags in wheels up, and that its a system wide policy that it must be done that way. Must be their way of confusing the bag guys.

Do we have this in writing?? Im sick of taking that **** out.

The TSA Blog: Traveling with E-readers, Netbooks, and Other Small Gadgets (Including the iPad)

BTW I just went to www.google.com and put in TSA NETBOOK it was the first result

BAZINGA!

BAM! .. thanks.

That post didn't say a word about MacBook Air. I think you meant this one:

The TSA Blog: MacBook Airs (Along with many other computers and gadgets) are Still Clear for Take Off

11' OK, 13" gotta come out.



BTW since when is a blog the vehicle for delivering what the TSA screens/removes, etc.? Too friendly.

OK, mine was a 100% attempt at humor given the percentages used so I'm about 93% sure you missed that. :D

Im 99.9% sure I was being sarcastic.