The TSA thought a MacBook Air was suspicious

This morning's CNET Macintosh Download Dispatch featured an interesting story of a businessman who, traveling with his MacBook Air, was detained by the TSA. The reason? TSA agents are trained to look for a hard drive when viewing laptops under x-ray.

The MacBook Air can be configured with a 64GB solid-state drive. No traditional hard disk. TSA presumed it was a suspicious piece of equipment (perhaps a bomb?) and the businessman was eventually released, but missed his flight.

I'm standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me. "There's no drive," one says. "And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be," she continues.

You can read his first person account here.