[Gllug] OT: laptop docks and airliner holds

[Karanbir Singh]

Christopher Currie wrote:
> I've recently acquired an X41 thinkpad with ultrabay dock from Linux Emporium. 
> I'm contemplating taking it abroad and had assumed I could put the dock 
> (which includes a removable  dvd-rw drive) in checked baggage without risk 
> that it would be damaged by the x-ray machines, while keeping the laptop with 
> me.

this is interesting, I've heard of it - but never seen any real proof of 
why this might happen. I've personally never lost any data or had any 
damage to laptops in any luggage scanning machine. Also, all hand 
luggage is x-ray scanned anyway at every international airport I've been 
to in the last few years, and the eurostar terminal at Ashford.

> But it occurs to me that the dock might provoke a search when the baggage is 
> x-rayed (under the misguided suspicion it's a laptop), which in turn might 
> result in loss or damage of one kind or another.
> 
> Anyone have any stories either about that sort of risk, or about damage to 
> electronics of components like that? 
> 

I've often taken laptops in checked-in baggage and never had a problem - 
  just make sure your insurance covers it if its broken / lost in 
transit. Which (tempting fate here ) has not happened to me as yet.

- KB
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