"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/15/2019 at 10:46 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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The Apple laptops in question are some 15-inch MacBook Pros sold between September 2015 and February 2017. Apple issued the recall in June, saying it had “determined that, in a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro units, the battery may overheat and pose a fire safety risk.” ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )
How in the world are they even going to be able to enforce this? I would wager that many laptop owners have no idea which laptop they have and, if it was bought secondhand, they are unlikely to have received the recall notice . How is TSA going to know if you replaced the battery or not?
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Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 10:54 |
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I guess I’ll just go back to my old
Sony Vaio
facw
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 10:59 |
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Yeah I see no way this isn’t going to be a shitshow (unless they just ignore the ban). I do not believe a TSA agent is likely to differentiate between:
A recalled laptop that hasn’t been fixed
A recalled laptop that has been fixed
A laptop that looks identical to the recalled laptop but wasn’t recalled.
With the Note debacle it was just a single device type of device that never really got fixed so it was easier (and IIRC Samsung was planning a graphical change so that it would be easy to tell at a glace whether the device was a risk or not).
I don’t see Apple just buying back all these machines, and I don’t see travelers leaving their machines behind, so something will have to be worked out.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 11:03 |
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I think the answer is that it is going to be a pain in the butt to get through security with a Macbook.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 11:09 |
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There’s a marketing opportunity here for fireproof bags. They already sell them for use when charging the large LiPo batteries used for drones (I hate that word).
Scale it up to fit a MacBook and the problem is solved. Well, as long as they ban the in-flight use of MacBooks.
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ttyymmnn
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
08/15/2019 at 11:14 |
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I have a MacBook, but it’s not a Pro. How will TSA even know that difference?
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
08/15/2019 at 11:15 |
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Sounds a bit like the fix for the Li battery fires on the Dreamliner. They didn’t fix the batteries, they just made the box more fireproof, and added a vent.
McMike
> facw
08/15/2019 at 11:20 |
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That was the first thing I thought of. How will TSA know the difference?
This is the second thing I thought of.
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Sticker-25mm-455/dp/B0192HL7E4
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TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 11:20 |
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I would expect they will hastle you about it and not let it through unless you can prove its not effected. Of course if you have a techie TSA agent they will be able to identify that it’s not an effected model and just let you through. Hopefully they at least get a basic PPT presentation on which chassis design is not allowed (basically that only the big ones with more than 2 ports on each side and no disk drives might catch fire) , and maybe they will even get trained far enough to allow you to disprove the flammability of your Mac by showing its not a Mid 2015 15" Pro in the about Mac screen.
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ttyymmnn
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
08/15/2019 at 11:22 |
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But who’s got time going through security to open it up, log in, and to go About This Mac? This is going to be a clusterfuck.
jminer
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 11:35 |
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It’ll be like the Note fiasco a f ew years ago. Signs everywhere but none checking your phone if it was one of those models.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 11:43 |
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I miss the good old days of flying in the early 2000s, where among 150 passengers, you might have one Apple-branded laptop.
That guy smells bad and hasn’t trimmed his beard in 3 years. Make him sit in the back. I don’t care if he’s late to his ad pitch.
/s
Tripper
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 11:44 |
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Ugh, hoping this blows over as I’m traveling for work at the end of the month and I’m sure every apple laptop is being scrutinized. I have other computers that I can take but the macbook is the one I use everyday because it’s tiny and I travel super light.
chaozbandit
> ttyymmnn
08/15/2019 at 12:24 |
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Short answer, they’re not because no ones being paid enough.