AirTag fits into expansion bay

No need to make an expansion card mod and waste the slot. A stripped down airtag in the expansion bay works just fine, assuming you don’t use the graphics module.

Saw a forum post the other day where someone did the exact same thing, but I can’t find it. Wanted to lend credit to the mod because yeah it works. Unsure how this affects thermals in the long term so keep that in mind.

I removed the airtag speaker so assuming a thief isn’t a tech enthusiast, I doubt one would be able to find and disable it. Renders the device useless outside of a faraday cage lol

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Welcome to the community! Does it get a reliable signal when once it is installed?

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Thank you!

All the metal interference considered, it seems to be just fine within my room. Definitely isnt as good as being in a wallet or something, but as long as an apple device is within 10 ft of the tag it should report back.

The reception could probably change slightly depending on which way you orient the antenna coil. I have it facing the laptops inner components.