Looks like Apple is in the same boat as Dell – they both use Sony-made batteries. You do not want your laptop to explode, period.
Prepare to send in your batteries.
Be safe.
This is an interesting email that lays out the technicalities of transporting the chemicals that the terrorists were planning to use as explosive materials (assuming the news reports correctly identified the chemicals – we’ll leave that up to the blogosphere to verify)
I am not a chemist, but as I stood in a check-in line that stretched out into the airport parking garage, I thought to myself, “Terrorists would see this security line and tell themselves, ‘Oh hell no, I’m not waiting this long in a line for a chance at blowing up an airplane!’” Perhaps that is the TSA super-secret plan all along.
I appreciate the fact that many things are being done for my own safety, but I really do wish we had someone in charge that applied some common sense to airline security.