[kingofthenerds]

Your milage will vary as they say, In North America I usually just take the Playbook and Laptop out as they are usually right next to each other in my bag anyway and leave behind P&S camera, ipod, blackberry etc.. I have found that in Europe, and particularly in Frankfurt they expect all electronics including the "small stuff" to come out of bags and be placed in bins.

The last time I connected in Frankfurt there were two idiots in the security line ahead of me with huge, obviously oversized and overweight carry-on bags. The screener, very clearly instructed them to take ALL electronics out of the bag and place each item in a separate bin. So the first guy takes out a laptop and hands over the bag and the guy looks in it, sees an iPad and hands it back and tells him to take ALL of his electronics out and rattles off a list of the kinds of things he's talking about: "ipod, ipads, tablets, e-readers, cameras, game-boys, GPS etc.) so the guy takes out one or two items and again the bag is examined and there's still electronics in there, so around we go again, it took maybe 4 rounds of this dance before they got to talking about all the crap in his pockets he needed to remove before passing through the metal detector.

So then his buddy, who has witnessed this entire process goes through the same thing, in the same way, he had 4 ipads, a laptop, two cameras, some sort of portable game and a RC helicopter with it's controller and for each one of these items he had to be asked individually to take it out of his bag and put it in a bin.

[jhimmel]

New York Kennedy International Airport, Tokyo Narita International Airport, and Manila Philippines Ninoy Aquino International Airport - all in March. Playbook stayed in carry-on backpack. I asked some of them specifically if they wanted me to remove it, they said no. However, I had all electronics, including my Playbook, packed in such a way for swift and easy removal just in case. All smaller electronics were packaged together in a see-through plastic bag that I could pull out easily - just like my carry-on sized liquids.

[vespajet]

Honestly, there's so much space inside a laptop to stash explosives and still allow functionality, that I'm surprised no one has done so yet.

That's why folks have to take their laptops/netbooks out of their bags (but not any sort of sleeve they may be in), and why when tablets first started appearing why there was some initial confusion regarding the screening of them.

[jwn66]

I'm more worried about the scanner just outright frying out and breaking stuff somehow lol.

[Stewartj1]

I've gone through DIA, Midway, St. Louis, Burbank, and San Diego all within the last 2 weeks, and I was never asked to pull the PlayBook out of it's normal home inside my carry-on...I guess it depends on which TSA agent you get, and whether nor not he/she had a good morning.

I just put it in the tray with my laptop as a courtesy to the screeners in the hope they'll be nice to me if I've foolishly left a bottle of water or something in my carry on. I find doing those things gets me a lot more goodwill than those who try to skirt the rules.

[F2]

I managed to fly one way to Denver with a swiss army knife in my carry-on pack. I unmanaged and lost my 40 year old swiss army knife on the return trip!!!

[BigAl_BB9900]

When I first got my PlayBook (summer 2011), UK Airport Security would always get me to power it on (Manchester, London Stanstead, Heathrow, & Gatwick)

Nowadays, they just ask me to unfold the flap on the case (a Navtech 'stand-up' case) and then wave me through

Not sure why they have changed their procedures - assume it is because the 'explosives sniffing' apparatus is more effective nowadays

(UK airports are still on a high status for security alerts)

[kill_9]

When necessary I take the Letter of Authorization from my pocket. Nobody argues with a letter signed by JAG.

[jvictor77]

Just got back from Europe - didn't wait to be asked and put 2 PB's and phones in tray - no problems. On 2 occasions though, I was put in that transparent cylindrical tube to be scanned holding my comb above my head lol!