At 20:25 -0800 11/12/03, John Burke wrote:

>Alfredo tries to be heard over the noise of his new A-class systems,

...

>HP's engineers apparently do not know how to do quiet. I've got a NetServer
>E60 I use as a Linux server, and which supposedly was designed for an office
>environment, but makes more noise than all my other machines combined
>(HP3000 927, IBM AS400 270 and Micron mini-tower PC). Much more noise. The
>fans are so loud I only turn it on when I need to work with the box. It was
>a major disappointment.

Funny you should mention this, because I experienced exactly the same
kind of noisy ecosystem.  Well, not quite, because I had an hp3000
995-500 (which whispers very pleasantly), an hp3000 918, an
hp3000 928, two Mac PowerBooks (15" and 17"), 3 iMacs, 1 Mac Cube,
two Mac towers, three Dell laptops (8500, 8600, and x300) and one
Dell Workstation 350.  Cinderella and Cenicienta made quite a racket
compared to the other machines.

The most splendid (because of its power) in terms of super-quiet
behavior is the Dell Workstation 350, which I use to "drive" a
ViewSonic 2400 x 3840 flat-screen monitor.  The monitor's fan (very
quiet in its own right) is actually noisier than the fan on its
assigned Dell Workstation -- Impressive!

Shouldn't HP be able to invent quieter fans than Apple and Dell?

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 |            r  |  Alfredo                  http://www.adager.com
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 |      a        |  Manager, R & D Labs
 |    d          |  Adager Corporation
 |  A            |  Sun Valley, Idaho 83353-3000            U.S.A.
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