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This is absolutely going to decrease travel to the US.

- More people will need to buy hard-shell cases. Would you want to trust your over-the-should bag to the ravages of the bag-handling machines? I certainly wouldn't...

- Would you want to risk having your laptop stolen/lost/damaged by checking it?

This would be a complete nightmare for business travelers.

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Business travellers with stateside offices will probably be told to leave their data on the intranet and their laptop at home, they'll get a loaner in the US. There's a market here for someone to start a rental laptop business (just like rental cars at airports), but any intelligent business would never allow their employees to touch such a laptop..

I've actually been interested in affordable laptop rentals for a while but haven't found anything worthwhile, mostly lease to own. Has anyone encountered this done well yet?

And this is exactly what the Bannon wing of the admin wants.

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