Why Terrorists Leave Me Bullish On Apple

This article is a little puzzling to me. Uni-body MacBooks are very easy to open. About half a dozen screws and the entire bottom plate is easily removed. This is actually a bit easier than most PC laptops that may have hidden screws or require you to remove the keyboard first.

This is moronic. The author expects TSA to 'approve' apple laptops? The TSA will have to go around and train every flight attendant to recognize what brand of laptop it is and then allow/disallow it? Never ever gonna happen. Far easy and safe to just say 'no laptops allowed'

This seems like an absurd, silly idea..

1) Have any laptops (or MP3 players) actually been used to smuggle explosives onto a plane?

2) Aren't laptops and such searched for explosives anyway? (x-ray'd, sniffer-dog'd etc - my hand-luggage was randomly swabbed for explosives)

There is some logic to banning such electronics, but it's the same logic that lead to water bottles and metal butter-knifes being banned..

The linked news-item (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27plane.html ) seems to be a better argument for giving all airline passengers guns than it is for banning laptops..

Flying just isn't worth it anymore.

While an interesting idea and entertaining this is a horrible reason to buy stock since it's all hypothetical. There are tons of better reasons to buy APPL stock right now (although I am waiting till it dips again before adding).

Why would a terrorist buy an apple laptop which is in the 1000-2000 range when a cheaper laptop which will accomplish the same objective work? Also, it seems like having a Apple approved laptop would be meaningless for our security and probably introduce holes because terrorists would figure out to subvert it.

Lets give the author a break. I'm pretty sure it is written as a joke. Is it a waste of time? Yes. Should it have been on HN? Probably not.

Article makes itself pointless in last paragraph:

"Unlikely? Yes. But if it happens, buy AAPL."