Magnets in SurfacePro and Sony vaio flip- safe in the same bag as your other devices like your phone?

Magnets in SurfacePro and Sony vaio flip- safe in the same bag as your other devices like your phone?

When do magnets damage devices and how do you prevent devices with built in magnets from harming your other devices?

 

Damage may indeed be inflicted on other devices - but most likely not.

To be sure, simply keep them as separate as possible at all times (there is no other way to prevent possible harm).

 

Those magnets aren't powerful enough to destroy anything. There's no magnetic drives, it's all solid state.

 

IIRC, most of the damage done by magnets to a computer is by scrambling up bits on the mechanical hard drive, since HDDs operate by way of magnetism. Even then, it has to be a relatively powerful magnet.

As for SSDs, you wouldn't see any effect unless you're in a magnet field that'd also (possibly) kill you as well as the drive: http://serverfault.com/questions/352045/what-effects-do-magnets-have-on-hdds-and-ssds