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Some Airlines Banning All MacBook Pros From Checked Luggage and Preventing Use During Flights
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How many posts need to be written explaining this is not something involving TSA?
I’d suggest it has very little to do with the CEO and everything to do with a huge increase in cost for consumers.
Last minute changes from a client. Everything else has gone out Fedex (which funny enough has been less reliable than check in for us this year), and you’re still bringing a personal computer carry on so the last minute client request goes into check-in and if something happens, the well ‘we tried to accommodate but this is why you ask us before we ship’ email gets sent.
I smell a class action if they actually start preventing people from flying or using their computers. Not good for share holders.
I recently flew on Air France. Nothing was brought up by security nor was the ban in the EU mentioned on my flight. My 2015 MBP isn't apart of the recall though.
Yes, it's basically an honor system where the airlines ask those who have an impacted MBP to have it shut off for the whole time they're on the aircraft. I fly probably three weeks per month and have yet to see a single person hassled over their Mac.
That's why I'm trying to figure out if they'd actually allow you to bring it on the plane, as many people seem to assume, when you can't put it in a checked bag or carry on. Seems like it's just as much a problem when it's loose.
Battery faulty -> battery is a fire hazard -> same exact issue.
Had the battery from my Early-2013 Macbook Pro 15" replaced last year. I wonder if this battery is the same faulty ones from 2015 15" MBPs.
Did your comment get edited for including something political?Just playing Devil's advocate here Duke, but I doubt Apple will be affected much by the tariffs, if at all, based on . And it's a blemish for sure, but nowhere near on the scale of a certain Korean company and their flagship phone a couple years back
I'm betting that new 16" MBP that's just around the corner is going to be such a beauty and a technical juggernaut that this issue will be quickly forgotten about anyway.
I know it's not the same scale, but it's still going to annoy a ton of people who travel often. Especially if they are outright banned so you can't check them or use them during flights. People still need to get work done. You have to buy something else or not get work done. More and more companies are allowing employees to have Macs so they are becoming a bigger factor in business. This could limit that to an extent.
I think the 16" MBP is going to be so expensive that it's going to turn off a lot of users. For the performance they are already priced too high for me. The iMac is a much better value. I'm looking forward to Apple shaking things up with their own CPU and GPU across the lineup of MacBooks. Either that or switching to AMD which has been making a lot of serious progress on their 7nm production and is bypassing Intel, at least on desktop. I haven't kept up with their mobile chips. I've been considering building an AMD-based gaming PC at some point next year when the new GPUs launch from Nvidia and AMD.
Are you sure about that?
Slightly thinner, bigger trackpad, and a Touch Bar that seems, at best, annoying to most people.
WTF are you going on about? Tim Cook didn't personally cause a battery issue with a bunch of laptops...
OK, apologies. Then who determines what laptops are allowed on a plane? And when?
It’s one thing to disagree and another to be objectively wrong. Tim Cook has done a magnificent job as a CEO, whose main job is to increase shareholder value.
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I speak for my shares and they are objectively performing well under Cook.
Good. As I mentioned, no one shareholder speaks for the collective group.
I’m pleased with past AAPL performance and hope it continues, but it’s not my best performer. Another beats it by > 8 points ytd.
The back of your laptop has its serial number. Whoever wants can check against the (SSL authenticated) apple site.
In theory this is good enough. In practice... I doubt that this will really address the concerns of some inspectors..