TSA says SP4 is a laptop, not a tablet ...
- Thread starter MaxBuck
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That's kind of irrelevant once they pull the bag out off the conveyor.Detach the keyboard.besides the TSA couldn't hit the ground with their hat.
Point is, detach it before putting it on the conveyor.
Have you confirmed that this simple act will let the SP4 through? Seems odd, but then many things the TSA does seem odd ...
So i[ads are also laptops? Or is it a case of one rule for this, one rule for that.
leeshor
Well-Known Member
Sorta funny story:
In 1988 I had a monstrously heavy orange gas plasma display Toshiba laptop. Being a firm believer in surge suppression back then I had a round sure suppressor on the end of the cable. That was my standard operating configuration. The laptop was auto voltage even back then.
My boss asked to borrow that laptop for a trip to Germany so I said sure, no problem. When he got to the Paris airport, (remember this is 1988) security made him take it out of the bag and they wanted to see it plugged in and operating. The only outlet they could find was at the Pan Am ticketing counter. When he plugged it in he blew the circuit that ran all the reservation/ticking system in the entire Pan Am counter. He forgot to take the surge suppressor off. Needless to say it was NOT auto voltage switching. Security was so upset they sent him on his way but the people at the counter were frantic and so was he.
He called me that night and said he may have burned up my laptop. When he told me what happened I asked him to remove the surge and it powered up just fine. Even then they made some people prove it was really a laptop but I think some of the security people hadn't actually seen one before.
In 1988 I had a monstrously heavy orange gas plasma display Toshiba laptop. Being a firm believer in surge suppression back then I had a round sure suppressor on the end of the cable. That was my standard operating configuration. The laptop was auto voltage even back then.
My boss asked to borrow that laptop for a trip to Germany so I said sure, no problem. When he got to the Paris airport, (remember this is 1988) security made him take it out of the bag and they wanted to see it plugged in and operating. The only outlet they could find was at the Pan Am ticketing counter. When he plugged it in he blew the circuit that ran all the reservation/ticking system in the entire Pan Am counter. He forgot to take the surge suppressor off. Needless to say it was NOT auto voltage switching. Security was so upset they sent him on his way but the people at the counter were frantic and so was he.
He called me that night and said he may have burned up my laptop. When he told me what happened I asked him to remove the surge and it powered up just fine. Even then they made some people prove it was really a laptop but I think some of the security people hadn't actually seen one before.
jrioux
Active Member
No, it seems to be whatever the individual TSA agent decides at the time.
