[P1] iBook & travel

[Paul Bernhardt]

Jack Rodgers said on 1/15/03 5:35 AM:

>On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:18  AM, Joan Keenan wrote:
>
>> Just curious as to whether sleep counts as not using your computer on 
>> an airplane. It seems that everytime I travel at least one check point 
>> decides that I must start up the computer to check it. Of course with 
>> OSX this takes about 2 minutes so I am stuck standing there and then 
>> need to shut down. I have been shutting down before boarding. I 
>> normally just put it to sleep when taking it to work.
>> Thanks
>
>There have been numerous threads on many possible reasons why it takes 
>so long to startup from sleep or not startup. I can't remember all of 
>the possibilities, but one is putting your book to sleep while it is 
>connected to a USB device, maybe even a Firewire device. You may have 
>an extension or appl that crashes when you sleep.
>
>People who have this problem might start a thread for or even search 
>the archives for possible answers.
>
>I have zero problems with Jaguar Dot 3 on a Tibook, although I did have 
>a problem before with it freezing if I had not disconnected my dialup 
>connection. No problem now. But then I am not running any haxies and 
>very few login startups, etc.
>
>And I don't have OS 9 installed and thus Classic is not running.  If 
>you have Classic running you might have an extension problem.
>
>At the very least you should update to Jaguar dot 3 and even do as I 
>did and erase your drive and install everything fresh.

This wasn't his question. His question was: Is it OK for my computer to 
be in sleep mode when boarding an airplane (where they ask that all 
devices be turned off). I have no actual answer for that question, except 
to say, I've traveled with my iBook in sleep mode for the entire trip, 
boarding, security check, etc. and had no problems.

Paul