Comments on: Tough gear for tough travel woes

Meet the laptops, PDAs and luggage that won't get beat up in airplane cargo holds.
Photos: Rugged stuff

[Satorial Chap]

This is all completely wrong

There is no restriction on anyone taking a laptop or MP3 player on to aircraft, but you are not allowed to carry any liquids. Miss McCarthy ought perhaps to check her facts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4789593.stm

[kamwmail-cnet1]

A McCarthy never lets FACTS get in their way.

Remember Senator McCarthy and the Red Scare? And you should definitely take a look at the current New York Representative McCarthy who got elected on a "crazed blackman attacking whities" scare.

[tayl0044]

Check again...

Actually, airlines with flights from the UK to the US were NOT allowing electronics of any kind to be brought into the passenger cabins. This policy may have since been modified...

[kantan]

Let's try for accuracy next time!

Just today I looked at the TSB's website regarding forbidden items and there is no suggestion that cellphones have been banned unless you have one that runs on a liquid acid battery.

[Jackson Cracker]

ruggedness might not matter if battery problems continue

Remember the oxygen-generating canisters that caught fire and brought down
a plane in the Everglades several years ago? A Dell laptop with a Sony
battery could present a similar hazard, leading to an eventual ba.

[Jackson Cracker]

ruggedness might not matter if battery problems continue

Remember the oxygen-generating canisters that caught fire and brought down
a plane in the Everglades several years ago? A Dell laptop with a Sony
battery could present a similar hazard, leading to an eventual ban.

[TCribbe]

Laptops No More

Soon to be - No Laptops in Carry on or Checked Bags

Lithium-ion batteries used in most laptops today contain liquid and the liquid is flammable.

With the new TSA restrictions on liquids and gels in carry on luggage, laptops would not be permitted.

Flammable liquids in checked baggage has long been forbidden.

On logical conclusion would be that the burden carried by todays road warriors will soon be reduced.

[maverick_nick]

Dell as hot as hell

I really don't get this. If Sony's batteries are used by so many laptop manufacturers, then why is it that only Dell is having this issue. I haven't heard any news of Sony having problems with their laptops. Perhaps it has something to do with how Dells use the battery?