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flying--airport security and Inspiron
If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I
let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) |
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Make sure you are familiar with the operation of your laptop. You will be
asked to start it up and show the desktop. You will be asked to remove the battery. Exposure to magnetic fields would be a bad thing. X-Rays are not an issue. "MZB" wrote in message ... If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) |
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Kevin wrote:
Make sure you are familiar with the operation of your laptop. You will be asked to start it up and show the desktop. You will be asked to remove the battery. Exposure to magnetic fields would be a bad thing. X-Rays are not an issue. snip I've never had to "show the desktop" or "remove the battery." Notan |
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MZB wrote:
If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) 99% of the time all they ask is for you to take the laptop out of the bag its in (assuming you're carrying it with you) and put it in one of the boxes (usually by itself) to go through the X-ray machine (it will be fine). Every so often they swab it for residue of chemicals that can be used for bombs, etc. This is under the presumption you're referring to security at US airports. |
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"MZB" wrote:
If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? You'll take it out of it's case and send it thru the scanner in a plastic bin by itself. This let them get a clear picture of the laptop and it's case individually, which reduces confusion. Never had them ask to power it up, remove the battery, or anything else. That's TSA of course, El Al will probably ask you to disassemble the laptop and checkk the date-codes on the chips. 8*) Low intensity X-Rays and moderate magnetic fields will not effect it any. [Rathole] In fact, you could lie down on the belt and go thru the X-Ray machine yourself and only get another dose equivalent to a couple more hours of flight time. [I measured 194 uR by sending my dosimeter thru in my carry-on, about 0.2% of the WHO limits for the "General Public".] You wouldn't want to do it more than about once a day on the average, but "NewCleeYar Radiation" isn't as evil as some folks think.] [/Rathole] |
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Just curious where you fly? I've flown roughly 3,000,000 miles around the
world and haven't had to power on a computer since roughly 1992. Tom "Kevin" wrote in message ... Make sure you are familiar with the operation of your laptop. You will be asked to start it up and show the desktop. You will be asked to remove the battery. Exposure to magnetic fields would be a bad thing. X-Rays are not an issue. "MZB" wrote in message ... If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) |
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:22:48 -0400, MZB wrote:
If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) My Compaq Presario and IBM Thinkpad notebook has gone through the x-ray machine without loss of data so I expect the Dell to be OK also. |
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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:57:00 +0000, Nicholas Andrade wrote:
MZB wrote: If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) 99% of the time all they ask is for you to take the laptop out of the bag its in (assuming you're carrying it with you) and put it in one of the boxes (usually by itself) to go through the X-ray machine (it will be fine). Every so often they swab it for residue of chemicals that can be used for bombs, etc. This is under the presumption you're referring to security at US airports. It usually goes through the same process at foreign terminals also. But, it's rare to see the laptop case get swabbed. I have had to turn on the laptop but that was only twice in the past 5 years. |
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johnny wrote:
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:57:00 +0000, Nicholas Andrade wrote: MZB wrote: If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) 99% of the time all they ask is for you to take the laptop out of the bag its in (assuming you're carrying it with you) and put it in one of the boxes (usually by itself) to go through the X-ray machine (it will be fine). Every so often they swab it for residue of chemicals that can be used for bombs, etc. This is under the presumption you're referring to security at US airports. It usually goes through the same process at foreign terminals also. But, it's rare to see the laptop case get swabbed. I have had to turn on the laptop but that was only twice in the past 5 years. I've had it swabbed twice in the last four years (since Sept. 11, 2001) out of roughly 50 or so domestic flights (~4% of the time); it's not a big deal at all -- only takes a second. |
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I haven't done any flying recently but a friend just flew from Los Angeles
to Chicago and she was asked to open the battery bay and show the battery on her laptop. It was sent through the scanner as well. Two years ago an acquaintance of mine was flying to Australia and he was asked to boot the machine up and show the desktop as well as remove the battery for inspection. The TSA, as far as I know, now only requests that you remove the laptop from any carrying case and run both the case and the laptop through the scanner. They can ask you to do anything they deem reasonable to assure safety. "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... Just curious where you fly? I've flown roughly 3,000,000 miles around the world and haven't had to power on a computer since roughly 1992. Tom "Kevin" wrote in message ... Make sure you are familiar with the operation of your laptop. You will be asked to start it up and show the desktop. You will be asked to remove the battery. Exposure to magnetic fields would be a bad thing. X-Rays are not an issue. "MZB" wrote in message ... If I travel with my new Inspiron, how do I go thru airport security?? Can I let the machine go thru the x-ray or do they inspect it manually?? Mel (new to laptops) |
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