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Some Airlines Banning All MacBook Pros From Checked Luggage and Preventing Use During Flights
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Wouldn't it be easier just to read the article? Or even just the title? It is the airlines. The airlines are banning the laptops.
Again, here in the states the TSA will scan your luggage and determine procedure.
Want quotes FROM the damn article?
In practice are you going to wait in line whilst the airport staff check every Mac laptop serial number on a website?
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No, the TSA is not involved with this. It's between the FAA, who made the directive, and the airlines, who are charged with implementation.
Again, in the end, who ENFORCES any rules at security checkpoints at US airlines?
The original post you responded to was in reference to who enforces the mandates, not who ADMINISTERS them.
Well Samsung tried to push any of the known boundaries or limits of known lithium ion battery density for consumer electronics. And they didn’t test it enough and it failed and bit them hard. This is not what Apple did at all and apple simply had a bad supplier for some of the proven battery form factors and power delivery and it failed very slightly.
So personally i consider it different as do most.
If I were responsible for keeping planes in the sky, and I knew Apple felt it necessary to run a product recall on the laptops, I wouldn't be taking any chances.
I have been looking at the numbers. Apple was always going to grow regardless of who became CEO because smartphone sales were still exploding. He’s entirely mishandled mishap after mishap and many of the wounds have been self-inflicted. I do not care about stock price. I care about customer loyalty, brand image, name recognition. Like Starbucks relies on being Starbucks while selling low-quality crap coffee, it doesn’t matter because their brand image supersedes all that and they succeed.
In my OPINION iPhone sales are down double digits and not catching on in China and India because of Cook’s shortcomings and trashing of the brand. Consecutive quarters of iPhone sale dips, first time in history iPhone sales have been less than 59% of Apple’s profits etc. All the signs of a shrinking iPhone base are there, but nobody sees it because of inflated device profits and increased revenue. Makes no difference to me because it’s snowballing effect that will become noticeable in time regardless of opinion. Watch once these new models are released and the next earnings report is released. People will start to see...
In my OPINION iPhone sales are down double digits and not catching on in China and India because of Cook’s shortcomings and trashing of the brand. Consecutive quarters of iPhone sale dips, first time in history iPhone sales have been less than 59% of Apple’s profits etc. All the signs of a shrinking iPhone base are there, but nobody sees it because of inflated device profits and increased revenue. Makes no difference to me because it’s snowballing effect that will become noticeable in time regardless of opinion. Watch once these new models are released and the next earnings report is released. People will start to see...
No need. You are sure you are right. I really don't care what you think. Have a nice day.
The only surprising thing to me is people check MacBook Pros? I had cashews stolen from checked baggage. Not checking my laptop.
"as do most"?
And nah, it's no different. Apple was also pushing the limits on battery design. And swelling batteries wasn't new to the 2015 models. Apple's been having issues with that for years before that.
And again: result is the same. So please stop your mindless Samsung bashing.
Whatever. The iPhone X was so great I felt no need to upgrade. There was nothing more to it for me. I'll upgrade this year.
Nice attempt at hijacking the thread but we're not talking about Samsung here.
That was a mess. It wasn’t a 4 year old product either, it was brand new.
Samsung botched the recall and needed a do over, tainted the note line ever since.
They have banned them in India too. I'm afraid to carry my Macbook Air, for all I know the airports authorities woudn't be able to tell the difference
Apple sign off and put their name to the end product.
As a customer, our problem is with APPLE. What apple need to do about it internally is Apple's problem.
Oh! I guess it did. I was trying to skirt it as best as I could but apparently not good enough for the mods. It was relevant though to the conversation so I felt I couldn't leave it out, but oh well.
Yeah, the iMac (non-Pro) really is an underrated multi-tool that can do everything, and do it all on that beautiful 5K display. The thing for me is that I need portability as well as power, so Apple will have their teeth sunk into me for quite a while as far as the MacBook Pro is concerned.
Well said. I’m also rocking the 7 Plus and definitely am not someone who’s going to put up with using slow stuff. Smartphones reached their peak a couple of years ago and everything from this point on will be incremental just like regular computers.
I don't even own the affected model, so no. I'm just a little bit tired of all the silly overreactions by people who don't really understand battery tech and the risks involved, and who react out of fear without doing the math.
This isn't at all like the Samsung recall, where about a hundred phones caught fire within the first month. This was only about two devices per year. By my back-of-the-napkin estimation, these things catch fire at only about 16x the nominal rate for lithium ion batteries. Although that is a high enough multiple to be worthy of a recall, it isn't the sort of number that anyone remotely sane should be paranoid about. After all, non-Mac laptops outnumber Mac laptops by about 10:1, so even with those higher odds, a battery fire is still almost as likely to be caused by one of the non-Mac laptops as by a recalled Mac laptop.
Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm are many orders of magnitude more common than a battery catching fire, and more than an order of magnitude more likely to kill you when they happen. Lithium battery fires basically only kill people if they start a house fire while someone is asleep, statistically speaking.
As long as that laptop is in use when it catches fire, sure. A Lithium ion battery fire in an aircraft cabin is really no big deal. You just flood the device with water to quench the flames, then repeat every few minutes whenever the battery gets hot enough to self-reignite until it stops doing so. There's not enough metallic lithium in laptop batteries to be a problem; these aren't lithium primary cells that we're talking about here; water or a Class ABC fire extinguisher is more than good enough.
The main risk comes from fires that start without anyone noticing them in a timely manner. And that risk is much, much greater if you tell passengers that they can't use the laptops, because they are more likely to stuff them in an overhead bin, where the fire will get much hotter before anybody notices it — possibly dangerously so.
Have just checked in to an Emirates flight and they are not allowing affected MacBook Pros AT ALL, checked or cabin. I had to fire up my MacBook and run an “About this Mac” to prove mine was a 13inch. Not sure if this is across the board or I just ended up at an exceptionally vigilant check in line. Were I told I couldn’t get on the flight with my laptop, I don’t know what options I would have. If I had to travel back home to drop off my laptop I’d almost certainly miss my flight.