The iMac is very quiet, but of course my model will take only 4Gb; only! it's
quite sufficient for photos from a 10mp camera or 2. Now scanning a slide at
5400dpi and 16-bit ...
Chris
On 18 May 2010, at 09:17, SwissPace wrote:
> I studied this a lot at the time, the reason is the memory is quite
> close to the cpu's and apple's priority was quietness, so they specified
> the huge heatsinks and temperature sensors, the aftermarket memory I
> bought only had small heatsinks (same as the HP servers we have but it
> also didn't have the temperature sensor so it ran fine with the fans
> idling pretty much all the time. the later memory I bough had the huge
> heatsinks and sensors so when I boot my mac or wake it from sleep it
> sounds like an aircraft taking off for about 30 secs as the fans run at
> top speed and then go back to idle, I am only doing photo editing so am
> not really stressing the machine and it remains quiet apart from disk
> noise, I can't stand noisy computers when taht is the only sound, at
> work there is so much background noise you don't notice them so much,
> but I did swap my solaris machine (ultra 10) to an intel environment on
> a PC because I found the Ultra10 too loud.
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