shocks when going through airport security

I do not know if this causes any damage to the computer, but I wouldn't suspect that it would. However, I am very curious to hear as to why you get shocked. I have noticed that my computer will shock me a bit time to time, but not enough to loose hair 😉

Do you have the computer resting on a case or sleeve or something? I googled "what comes out of x-rays?" and this page came up: http://www.ehow.com/about4678475what-radiation-comes-out-xrays.html

I looked at Wikipedia's page on electromagnetic radiation. Here is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation

Could this possibly be the reason for the shocks? It sounds justifiable to me. I dunno though. I hope this helps.

If I had to guess I'd say it's because you're walking around in your socks on carpet and thus building up a static charge on your body. The MBP is not somehow storing up energy from the X-ray machine itself.

Incidentally, walking around in socks is a leading cause of male pattern baldness! 😉 At least according to the rumor I'd like to get started here as part of this thread...

After reading this thread for the first time I was skeptic, but I got a large shock today when I went to pick up my MBP 17 unibody from the plastic container after it went through the x-ray machine. It was a hard floor, no carpet and I was not wearing any wool, sweater or jacket.. just a button down, jeans (and no shoes). Not sure where the shock came from...

I'd be scared of electrokilling my shiny laptop.

Try grounding yourself first next time, if you can remember. Let us know what happens!

Although you'll never really know if it works... because there will still be the random times where you forget and touch it and it shocks you (or doesn't).