TSA Deems 11.6-Inch MacBook Air Bag-Friendly for Airports, But Not 13-Inch Model [Tsa]

It kind of feels the 11.6-inch MacBook Air falls into the ” small and transportable electronic items” category that the iPad belongs to , not less than where airport security is anxious. 13-inch Air owners will still need to be removed from bags, though.

Those couple extra inches count for something with the TSA, though as I said yesterday taking laptops out of luggage (and removing shoes) isn’t an enormous task. Apart from whenever you forgot to bypass the holey socks that day.

This just stirs the pot of the old argument again. What’s so dangerous about a couple extra inches on what’s virtually a similar laptop? I’ve been caught with a 9-inch netbook previously, being asked to remove it from my bag when dealing with the x-ray machine-so what gives? Perhaps the British Airways CEO Martin Broughton was bang on the buck yesterday when he branded the united states’ security rules as being ” completely redundant.” [ TSA via Gadling ]

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