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.

<g00glieelm0******.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

Some of us use quiet PDAs just for this reason. ;)

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Bill

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.

On 1 Nov 2006 00:06:46 -0800, 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.

There's a cure for that. Run down to your local thrift shop and
pick up any model of old manual typewriter. Anytime you think your
laptop is noisy, just thread in a sheet of paper into its rollers and
type a couple dozen lines. Your laptop will suddenly be silent as the
grave, trust me.
epbrown
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