At 23:17 -0600 11/12/03, Matthew Perdue wrote:

>Alfredo: sorry to hear about your noisy fan problem. Both older A400's
>and the new A500 here are very quiet. The air conditioner makes more
>noise than the computers.

Good points.  I'm afraid I can't do a comparison, because I haven't
used air conditioning in Sun Valley since 1988 -- I just crack the
window open to let some crisp mountain air in (or close it altogether
in the middle of a blizzard :-)


>I'd say your fans are possibly defective.

That was my original thought when Cinderella (the first machine)
arrived a few days ago.  Sadly, Cenicienta (the second machine) was
not any quieter.  Given the fact that both were (perhaps) produced
in the same manufacturing run, your theory makes a lot of sense.
We didn't want to call HP's support organization before knowing
more about the ecosystem's decibels, but we will call HP tomorrow.


>Also I notice the A500 (brand new) case is actually smaller than the
>A400's that are now > 2 years old. Did HP downsize the case and
>motherboard before "outsizing" it altogether?

Excellent questions.  Perhaps, in the process, some internal
turbulence developed and the new fan noise is the unfortunate result.

Quietly going into bed now,

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