I thought my new Dell XPS was noisy. But then I heard my son's Mac. I don't
even notice it anymore.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Noise problems are not unique to Macs.
>
> The new Dell (yuck) on my desk at work makes a very loud
> whooshing/spinning sound every time it reads a CD. It bothers my
> co-workers enough that I don't listen to music from CD. I've gone
> 'old-school' and use my cassette Walkman instead!
>
> ScottGee1
>
> On 1/24/07, Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> SNIP!
> >
> > There's a bunch of Macs at work, and the main problem with noise isn't
> > the drives, it's the fans. When you get an iMac going full steam
> > compiling software, the fans speed up until it's like there's a little
> > tornado on your desk -- even with the older towers sitting under the
> > desk, they can still be distracting.
> >
> > I guess that's the problem with the iMac form factor -- while it's
> > nice and compact and stuff, there's not the same amount of room spare to
> > put in quieter, slower, and thus bigger cooling fans like you can with
> > more generic PC towers.
> >
> > -- dan
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