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Save/ShareHate having to take out your laptop for TSA inspection? We do, too. As we anticipated, manufacturers are racing to sell laptop bags that can meet TSA standards and allow screeners to catch a clear scan of the laptop without needing to remove it from a bag.
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The bag will be divided with the laptop on one side in a cushioned pouch and your other belongings in the other half.
This morning, the Detroit Free Press described how the bag works:
Open it up, lay it on the conveyor belt and let it pass through. Pick it up at the other end, secure it shut and you're on your way.
The bag will be black (surprise!) and made of an impressive-sounding "durable ballistic 1680 denier nylon." It measures about 17 inches by 6.5 inches by 14 inches, and weighs less than pounds. It will sell for around $99 when it goes on sale in October.
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You may be interested to note that in London (LHR) - since the beginning of this year (2008) - there is no longer a need to remove a laptop from the bag it is in. This would make you wonder why it is apparently able to be processed in the UK, using perhaps the same available technologies, and yet we have to come up with a "see through bag?" of some kind to handle this here. Perhaps rather than compelling every traveler to contemplate this new bag we might best invest efforts in determining why this is acceptable in the UK and not in the USA....
Posted By Trevor Sadler on July 30, 2008, 10:58 AM
Meeting TSA standards is one thing. Getting the TSA screeners to allow it to go through is entirely another matter. How will they know this particular bag is the TSA approved one and not some look-alike knockoff from China??
For no hassel and heightened security, I've done two things:
1. Installed a red plastic laptop case-cover on my MacBook,
2. Transport it on a roll on bag that has an outside slot that fits the laptop perfectly.
Then I put the bag on the xray belt, slip out the laptop and put it in a tray just in front of the bag. Then it is very easy to keep your eyes on it all the time. Especially for me. I have an artificial knee and set off the detector 100% of the time. With the red plastic cover it is very easy to spot at all times. No hassle and no arguing with the uninformed xray inspector about the bag meeting TSA standards.
Posted By RFay on July 31, 2008, 12:33 PM
I can't imagine TSA letting you through with this bag since they can't let you through with shoes that have no metal in them and in no way will set off the alarms. I travel with a CPAP and always get pulled aside. The CPAP has to come out of it's bag and go in the bin all by itself even though there are no cords in the way of the xray machine.
Posted By NMartin on August 1, 2008, 2:07 AM
apprently they work and the tsa are letting them through
Posted By laptops and notebooks on November 4, 2008, 7:26 AM
bought one of these bags. last week security at las vegas airport told me "too bad, you have to take the computer out". the bag is clearly marked in several places; has it's own compartmet that is clearly marked "TSA Approved" las vegas was the only airport that refused the bag; hartford and orlando did not give me any problems at all. I found the tsa at las vegas to be rude and sort of on the "do what I tell you to do" side.
Posted By schwen7752 on December 26, 2008, 7:33 PM