Surface Pro 3 and NOT Having to Take Out of My Bag for TSA Security.

[Dinky89484]

I'm just happy that my "laptop" in the shape of a tablet doesn't need to be taken out of my bag like all other laptops at the airport security lines. Ahhh....the simple and small joys in life!

 

[Qtweeder]

interesting, i didn't know that, something i wont experience, even as a fellow sp3 owner, as i don't fly - wonder if they will eventually "catch on"

 

[anon(7901790)]

Shhh....

 

[realwarder]

It's a tablet, why should you need to take it out?

 

[Qtweeder]

It's a tablet, why should you need to take it out?

why do they make you take laptop out? and not tablet, again, am genuinely ignorant about this, as a non traveller, is it something relating to battery??

 

[BGrewer]

BBC News had an article on this, people need to show that there device can be turned on, in case the battery's been swapped for something sinister like a bomb or drugs

 

[Qtweeder]

ahh thats rings a bell now, thanks for clarifying

 

[Dinky89484]

Right. And I guess the thinking is that with a tablet as opposed to a laptop, the battery (along with other components) cannot be removed and replaced with explosive parts.

 

[realwarder]

Right. And I guess the thinking is that with a tablet as opposed to a laptop, the battery (along with other components) cannot be removed and replaced with explosive parts.

Which is a complete fallacy, as a tablet's worth of explosive would still be disastrous... but there you go. Most airport security is a waste of time and money.

 

[Chinocop]

Sometimes you have to take out the surface and sometimes you don't. It all depends on the screener. In Seattle, I have never had to remove it; however, I had to in Dallas and Vancouver.

 

[california86]

Sometimes you have to take out the surface and sometimes you don't. It all depends on the screener. In Seattle, I have never had to remove it; however, I had to in Dallas and Vancouver.

Ditto on this. Sometimes I have to take it out, sometimes not. Depends on the screener.

I left my SP3 in my bag while going through screening this past weekend and my bag was taken off the conveyer belt and checked because I "didn't remove my laptop". I informed the screener that it was a tablet, but she stated that anything with a fan needs to be removed.

 

[joeku]

Out dated policies and out of touch policy makers can't possibly keep up with technology.