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As Adam Fisher-Cox posted a few days ago, the TSA was baffled by a MacBook Air. The reasoning behind this is because the MacBook Air is almost as thin as paper, and is a different shape to the standard laptop. Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) are trained to look for anomalies in passengers’ baggage. Obviously, the MacBook Air is one of these anomalies.

A writer for the TSA Evolution blog, “Bob”, is hoping to make sure that staff are informed that they know what MacBook Airs look like under an X-ray, so that future delays because of this can be avoided.

Via [MacDailyNews]

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The latest item to throw Airport Security for a loop? Apple’s latest, thinnest, sleekest, sexiest notebook: the MacBook Air.

At a security checkpoint, blogger Michael Nygard was held up because they had detected something suspicious in his bag. Security staff gathered around, as they wondered how it could possibly have no optical drive and so few ports.

“I’m standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me. ‘There’s no drive,‘ one says. ‘And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be.‘“

It took a younger TSA official to explain the MacBook Air to all of the others before Nygard was let through, only to have to rebook, as his flight had just left.

The TSA defended themselves on their blog, saying that they were just doing as they were trained, though you’d think that to be qualified to inspect stuff, you would have to have knowledge about the stuff you are inspecting.

At least this wasn’t as bad as the befuddled Danish police officers who last month were confused by a first generation candy colored iMac, wondering where the actual computer was.

Via [MacNN]

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