Bob at the TSA Evolution Blog Team (the kindly gnomish face of the TSA that actually makes me think these morons are listening) responded to the intimation that MacBook Airs are weapons of mass destruction. Screeners are trained to look for certain things in laptops and other devices and when they saw an anomaly, they reacted. Good on them. They’ll also be scanning a MacBook Air to show screeners what to look for when they see SSD drives.
I don’t think the macBook Air is quite ok to fly with. There was a weird story hppened to a guy in the airport:
http://www.maconair.com/macbook_air_confuses_airport_security
the airport security was confused by the laptop