[OT] Taking shuttle pc as carry on

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 5 17:30:45 UTC 2007


On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:14:48PM -0500, jim ruxton wrote:
> Hey I know this is way off topic but the pc in question has Linux on
> it : ) Just wondering if anyone knows if I can take a shuttle PC as
> carry on. It isn't like a laptop in that xrays probably don't penetrate
> the metal case so they may not like to deal with it at security. Just
> concerened about it getting bashed about under the plane.

I doubt the shuttle case provides that much more shielding than a laptop
has.  After all the laptop has metal shielding mounted on the inside of
every bit of the case, since otherwise it probably wouldn't have
recevied its FCC certification.

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