IceBook Shielding

[Richard]

Do IceBooks really need their shielding?

 

[Temetka]

Yes. It shields the innards from RF both internal and external. I would posit that a shield-less icebook would get crappy wifi, have audio problems from the audio cable inducting nearby signals and possibly even RAM problems. The shielding also acts as a low flow heat sink because it is made out of aluminum and pulls some of the heat away from the system board in a passive manner. It's primary purpose is to shield, but it is my educated guess that it also acts as a heatsink.

Why do you ask?

 

[Richard]

Getting the shielding back on just now almost killed me, and some people have taken the shielding out of their clamshells to make them more translucent, so I wondered if you needed shielding in icebooks.

 

[Christopher]

I've taken mine out because its a pain in the butt to keep taking it in and out every time you work on it. It works just the same, same with a clamshell i had a couple years ago.

 

[joshc]

The shielding on Macs is more to meet regulations than anything else, as far as I know. Should work fine without it.

 

[Christopher]

The shielding on Macs is more to meet regulations than anything else, as far as I know. Should work fine without it.

Same with the new iMac G3's. I've taken it out and there's no change is performance.