Can an Xbox pass through an X-ray machine?

Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:17 am

Going down to be staying down at my brother's in Cali for the fourth, he wants me to bring my Xbox. I DO NOT want to check my 360 because they toss [censored] around and I'm not buying a 200 dollar ticket for them to break my 200 dollar game system. So I'm taking my Xbox and it's accoutrements as my carry-on and I'm curious as to whether or not the X-ray will be somehow harmful to it. I really doubt it but the woman thinks it will so... what's it gonna be?
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Doniesha World
 
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:13 pm

Nothing to worry about, people travel around with their laptops and such all the time.

(well someone could think its a bomb and shoot it...but whatever kills your x-box it wont be the xrays :) )
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:57 am

Nothing to worry about, people travel around with their laptops and such all the time.

(well someone could think its a bomb and shoot it...but whatever kills your x-box it wont be the xrays :) )


Their new policy is to shoot bombs now? I like it.

Thanks for the answer at any rate, I assumed as much but I just needed to be sure I wouldn't get a nice "I told you so."
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Lawrence Armijo
 
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:46 am

Their new policy is to shoot bombs now? I like it.

Well maybe not in the US, but in http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unibody-MacBook-Shot-Three-Times-Pronounced-Dead-129846.shtml

Thanks for the answer at any rate, I assumed as much but I just needed to be sure I wouldn't get a nice "I told you so."

better safe then sorry :)
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:29 am

Well maybe not in the US, but in http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unibody-MacBook-Shot-Three-Times-Pronounced-Dead-129846.shtml


:facepalm: At least he saved his hard drive.
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:53 am

better safe then sorry :)
That'd be a horrid outcome. I'd prefer to just be safe. Not poking fun at your spelling with animosity; I just can't help but chuckle when mixups lead to the opposite meaning of a phrase.

Also, I took my desktop PC to New Zealand and back from Georgia and it survived nicely. Went through many X-rays.
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:22 am

My ex took his to Pennsylvania with him as carry-on and it made the trip just fine. :)
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:16 am

Electronics should pass through alright but I always pack them in a separate bag and asked that they check it by hand rather than X-ray it. They've never had a problem doing this for me.
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:47 pm

Electronics should pass through alright but I always pack them in a separate bag and asked that they check it by hand rather than X-ray it. They've never had a problem doing this for me.

Really? I would think they might be a little suspicious if you told them to check it by hand... but if it works, then this is probably the way to go! :D
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sarah simon-rogaume
 
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:01 am

Xbox. Xrays. Oddly fitting.
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carly mcdonough
 
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:43 am

fed ex it to your brothers house, do over night. it will be cheaper than the carry on fee of bringing your xbox on the plan.

but to answer your question, no, there really isn't a way to hide a console from an xray machine, Idk if your not allowed to bring them on board other than maybe they think you might be smuggling something in it but that doesn't make sense to me.
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:14 am

They'll X-ray it, but the X-ray on the cabin item check port is much less intrusive than the strong one at the cargo items ports. Even the oldschool film camera films that are super sensitive to radiation, survive few times through the cabin x-ray machine, so your X-box should be just fine. All my belongings (iphone, digicamera, film camera) got x-rayed when I travelled from EU to USA, and nothing happened to them. They X-ray laptops all the time, it's not gonna break one X-box :)
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:58 pm

I just took my Xbox with me on a plane to England. Not even in hand-carry and it came out completely unscathed. :D
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Post » Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:16 am

Electronics should pass through alright but I always pack them in a separate bag and asked that they check it by hand rather than X-ray it. They've never had a problem doing this for me.


But there could be drugs in there!!
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