Airport security does not recognize the laptop in MacBook Air

A rather curious incident occurred at a US airport with Michael Nigard, an employee of Verizon, who decided to take the recently purchased Macbook Air on board the plane. A spokesperson for the transport security department, recalling Michael for a more thorough check, and apparently not familiar with the new ultra-thin laptop from Apple, said that there was “no hard drive” in this device, and “no ports behind”. After a few more people from the security service joined the careful study of the suspicious device, a young employee who was more familiar with the technical innovations found saying that it uses SSD memory “like a memory card in a digital camera”. But even after such a computer "educational program", the passenger had to open a laptop and run a program on it to eliminate all doubts about its purpose.

With all these twists and turns, Michael, of course, missed his plane, and he had to wait for the next flight in order to finally pass the flight time with a laptop carefully examined and X-rayed on his lap.