pls cmnt: cn I tk T42 on an airplane in suit case?Is it sf?

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jhonyl · #1 Post by **jhonyl** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:45 am

Hi,

I am wondering if putting the laptop in a suitcase would damage it? I don't want to take it on me to the airplane ... but I am not sure if it can handle the suitcase. (I can put it in the suitcase in its original box BTW.)

mlykke · #2 Post by **mlykke** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:47 am

ehhh try to explain that in an understandable way please

If you just wanna carry your thinkpad in a suitcase then there is no problem. Why on earth should there be.

People use all kinds of different bags to carry their computer around.

jhonyl · #3 Post by **jhonyl** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:15 am

Hi Mlykke -

In an AIRPLANE.

Because I don't know how the suitcase would be handled by the AIRPLANE crew.

mlykke · #4 Post by **mlykke** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:12 am

If i where you i would put the lapptop in a bag that you carry on to the plane. That way you could also use it during flight

If you put it in a suitcase, put it in between all your clothes so it is protected from bumps by the clothes.

JHEM · #5 Post by **JHEM** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:19 am

DO NOT PUT YOUR LAPTOP INTO CHECKED BAGGAGE! Besides the risk of breakage due to mishandling, there's the possibility of it never arriving at your destination. Theft from checked baggage is possible everywhere.

If the suitcase will be carried by you throughout the trip, then make sure the laptop is suitably cushioned by the contents.

Regards,

James

mlykke · #6 Post by **mlykke** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:44 am

True! I never thought about the theft possibility.

Well anyway, i also think that since its a small computer you could easily have it in your carry-on baggage.

NaT · #7 Post by **NaT** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:17 pm

Yes, theft would be the most dangerous threat. Yet, to the Thinkpad quality to tolerate damage question, if you pack it nicely, there wouldn't be any problem. Oh, you should remove the battery from the system unit too.

I sometimes did that when I had a few notebooks to carry and had to put some of them in the checked luggages.

NaT

#8 Post by **daeojkim** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:00 am

Never put your TP in suitcase... like others have mentioned theft is the biggest reason and chances are higher than you think. I heard so many lost and stolen baggage stories from friends that as try carry on as much as I can when flying. Plus due to security reasons now you are not allowed to lock your suit case. Talk about someone easily going through your luggage.

Sometimes airlines will reimburse you cost of lost goods but it takes months and usually you only get back fraction of the cost of merchandise value. e.g. my friend lost a baggage that contained $1000 camcorder. He got $300 from the airline.

#9 Post by **JaneL** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:45 am

Listen to James. Do not check your ThinkPad in your baggage. Chances are high that you will never see it again or, if you do, it will be broken. Carry it on the plane with you. It's one thing to check your clothes and lose them. It's quite another to do the same thing with computer hardware.

A little story. I used to travel on business 100% of the time back in the days of the 755 series and usually had 3 HDDs, a parallel-port tape drive and tapes, other bits and pieces of hardware and assorted floppies along with my 755CE. I used all of this getting users set up on the software that I supported on different platforms.

One week, I had been sick before I left on Monday with a sinus infection that the doctor's treatment on Saturday didn't help, and by Friday night when I was flying home, I had a bad case of bronchitis. I was running a fever and feeling terrible and decided to pack everything except the TP itself in my baggage and check it.

That was the only time that my checked bag got lost, and the airline had no idea where it went. When I got home, not only was I sick, I was frantic.

The story did have a happy ending in that my bag eventually turned up several days later with its contents intact, but what really scared me was that I had actually considered packing the TP in there, too. I hadn't - not because I thought it would get lost, but because I was afraid it would get broken.

After that, nothing that I couldn't do without (medicine, a change of clothes, hardware, software) got packed in my checked baggage. Everything that was necessary went onboard in my backpack.

Inky · #10 Post by **Inky** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:44 am

Also, checked-in luggage is subject to more intense X-rays (for inspection) than carry-on luggage. Even though laptops can withstand the low to medium level X-rays, it is concievable that some laptop components might not like the high power X-rays. Which components? I don't know, I would guess things like eprom chips and possibly even the harddrive.

-Inky

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