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Some Airlines Banning All MacBook Pros From Checked Luggage and Preventing Use During Flights
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I agree it is different, and that the Note 7 was probably a more serious danger. But I wonder if the inconvenience to MBP owners will be worse. With the Note 7, almost all of them were pulled from the market and replaced with different models within months. Good or faulty, Note 7 owners were carrying different phones shortly after the airline bans. What will MBP owners be dealing with 6 months from now? The airlines won't want to have to inspect each MBP's documentation to see that it was not affected or had been repaired.
The point is not that the risk is smaller but that a battery could have started the fire on that plane.
I already know about the weapons theory.
Note than the plane was coming from Taiwan.
Impressive but in 8 years under Steve it went from about $2.5B to about $40B. For the same percentage in improvement. Apple would need to be worth $4.8T today under Tim Cook. Obviously TC is a bad CEO compared to SJ.
More to the point, TC has be riding the momentum that SJ left him.
Now that momentum is slowing down. It just takes a while for something as ground breaking as the iPhone to start to get a little 'creeky' in consumers minds.
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What's the reasoning behind allowing affected MacBook Pro's on the plane in a carry-on vs not allowing them in a check baggage?
It doesn't make any sense to me. As a matter of fact, I would think that allowing it in a carry-on poses more risk. Aren't the checkin "bins" designed to withstand small bomb explosions? - I would think the faulty laptop would be safer there than inside the cabin.
It doesn't make any sense to me. As a matter of fact, I would think that allowing it in a carry-on poses more risk. Aren't the checkin "bins" designed to withstand small bomb explosions? - I would think the faulty laptop would be safer there than inside the cabin.
Whenever I fly internationally, the airline at check-in counter ALWAYS asked that all electronics with lithium-ion battery be removed from check-in luggage and can only be in carry-on. Also, who trust the airport workers enough to leave their LAPTOPS in the check-in luggages!?!?!? (A friend of mine lost her MBP when she checked-in. No one knows if it was taken out for security reason? or was stolen? They don't tell you!)
Actually, all power banks are also legal provided they are 25,600 mah or less in size. That's why so many batteries are "sized for airlines" or "airline approved."
[doublepost=1567112784][/doublepost]So let me be sure I understand this. The comments from people make it seem like you are allowed to have your laptop with you (off) as long as it's NOT in your bag? Does that make sense? Seems more like what they mean is you can't take it at all. It would be OK if we could bring it along and just not use it, as none of us would ever put a laptop in our luggage.
You can control a fire in the cabin by isolating it from flammables (tossing it into the metal bathroom or galley sink), dowsing surrounding items with water. In the cargo hold, you can't, and it will set surrounding bags on fire.
Very little is effective against Li-Ion fires, including cargo extinguishing systems. It will literally continue to burn underwater.
And no, containers are not designed to contain bombs, and narrowbody aircraft don't typically use containers to begin with, and explosions are different from fires.
Or how about we vote with our dollars and compel Apple to not produce faulty products?
You know what I love, my 12" MacBook Retina.
Why? Do you think the cabin crew knows the difference from a silver or space gray Macbook, Macbook Air, or Macbook Pro. If has an Apple logo on it, it is suspect. And once they say no you are stuck.
Hmm, I could have sworn that I saw a video years ago about how the cargo containers on planes were designed to contain some types of explosions so as to not bring down the plane.
yeah, i had my battery replaced by Apple in February this year, my cycle count is now 87 and i am getting battery problems again.
A lot of people put laptops in checked baggage. If you need 3 or 4 for a trade show, music gig, etc., you can't carry them all on.
Why don’t they just sedate every passenger and place them in cocoons for each flight? LOL. Insanity.
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 would be all for that. Knock me out and I wake up refreshed after a 12 hour flight. Even flying 1st class with lay flat beds 10+ hour flights are a drag.
As the article states, depending on where, it make be OK, as long as you don't use it on the plane.
Shareholders have been very happy because the product lines Steve Jobs put in place couldn't lose money if they tried.
Tim Cook is in no way responsible for any of the success, and is in every way responsible for the myriad of un-Apple like missteps, changes, and other disasters.
Yes. All of the blame. None of the credit. And its actually true.
