g00glieelm0******.com wrote:
> Anybody else hope that the future of computing isn't necessarily the
> fastest computers, but the quietest? The fans, the DVD drives, the
> keyboard, and the disk drives all drive me crazy sometimes.

When I was designing thin clients, fans were absolutely prohibited.
There were no drives of any kind, so they were essentially silent.

It's extremely difficult to design a system with convection cooling with
the power levels of CPUs. Most people aren't willing to put up with the
lower performance just for lower noise.