Laptop and airports

Which is it that is evil to your laptop? Metal Detectors (walk through ones at the airport) or the X-ray machines (at the airport)? I get conflicting issues on google.

 

Neither will affect your laptop.


Steve

 

agreed. Now, if you ran it throuh an MRI.. then , well, it's like insta-format

 

Thanks guys. Never really had to think about it before, but it looks like this Spring Break I will have some homework to do. I really wasn't sure... Maybe these guys should change there site.... Indiana University Knowledge Base

 

My laptop went thru all manner of airport security last month with no ill effects. The good thing about laptops and airports is finding out, during a four hour layover, that Las Vegas' McCarran has free wi-fi, and dozens of electrical outlets in the concourses.

 

The energy in the force field required to do any sort of damage to a laptop is in the range of teslas, which isn't going to be created by an airport detector.

Provided you don't have some sort of strange storage device on your laptop which relies on X-ray radiation in order to function, you should be okay there too

 

I took a laptop through an airport xray once,now it turns green whenever it gets mad. LOL

 

Great now I have to worry about my notebook attacking me while I'm asleep in the hotel.