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Air Koryo Jan 29, 2010 1:31 pm
Originally Posted by SATTSO (Post 13283078)
oddly enough, that is not what the computer looks like on our x-ray. Sure all the parts are there, but it doesn't look like that.
Of course it doesnt. To TSA, it looks like an aluminum case full of scary bombs of terror.

birdstrike Jan 29, 2010 1:49 pm
Originally Posted by gj83 (Post 13283118)
That's a normal macbook, not a macbook air. Since no one is saying what's really different I always thought it had to do with the appearance of the steady state drive, but I have no clue.
Comparing a Macbook Air teardown to the image in post #5 Leads me to believe that image is a Macbook Air, but it could be a Photoshop job for all I know. It is the first thing that comes up on a Google image search.

It -is- weird looking.

SATTSO Jan 29, 2010 3:39 pm
Originally Posted by Air Koryo (Post 13283312)
Of course it doesnt. To TSA, it looks like an aluminum case full of scary bombs of terror.
Exactly! ;)

MikeMpls Jan 29, 2010 4:32 pm
Originally Posted by eastport (Post 13253540)
How pointless!

"We are going to show this laptop go through the X-ray machine, but we are not actually going to show anything."

How can the image on the display be rationally classified as sensitive? Most checkpoints have the screens visible to everyone walking past.
How retarded can these guys get?

At the Oshkosh Air Show 2-3 years ago TSA had a display in the gov't area where they showed samples from the x-ray machine and challenged people to spot the weapons in them.

SSI my ***.

gj83 Jan 29, 2010 4:39 pm
Originally Posted by birdstrike (Post 13283438)
Comparing a Macbook Air teardown to the image in post #5 Leads me to believe that image is a Macbook Air, but it could be a Photoshop job for all I know. It is the first thing that comes up on a Google image search.

It -is- weird looking.
Right, that one doesn't seem to have some of the components that the one actually posted in the thread does. To me it seems like a different type of xray so i have a hard time really comparing them.

Sean5294 Jan 29, 2010 4:58 pm
I think it was Osama's laptop lol:p

AngryMiller Jan 29, 2010 5:56 pm
Originally Posted by gj83 (Post 13283118)
That's a normal macbook, not a macbook air. Since no one is saying what's really different I always thought it had to do with the appearance of the steady state drive, but I have no clue.

I figured somehow the pieces made a nice gun shape.
Lower right hand corner has a typical laptop hard drive. Macbook Air (on some models) has a SSHD and suspect that the lack of a hard drive is what drove the TSOs crazy.

Ayn R Key Feb 1, 2010 5:18 pm
And he did it again.

Originally Posted by My censored comment
Bob, as much as I'd love to discuss your child porn machines some more, that is not the topic that currently interests people You should discuss what happens when a TSO plants drugs in order to find drugs.
Of course, that was before the Orlando story broke.

FriendlySkies Feb 1, 2010 7:41 pm
Originally Posted by MikeMpls (Post 13284394)
How retarded can these guys get?

At the Oshkosh Air Show 2-3 years ago TSA had a display in the gov't area where they showed samples from the x-ray machine and challenged people to spot the weapons in them.

SSI my ***.
Oh, TSA trusts all of their employees, from the baggage thiefs to the power tripping TSO's, but not the public... I wonder how much money they wasted to film a pointless video..

RadioGirl Feb 1, 2010 8:47 pm
Originally Posted by MikeMpls (Post 13284394)
How retarded can these guys get?
Think of the biggest number you know. Now double it. Now multiply by 10. Now multiply by...
:D


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