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November 11th, 2006, 12:48 PM
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| Completely silent pc, how will Apple react?  |
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#2
November 11th, 2006, 01:14 PM
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| Interesting - Not very practical for most uses. There's only support for up to 4 GB of IDE flash storage. If an actual IDE bus, then you should be able to connect a standard IDE drive, and then would not be quite silent... As for fanless - Apple has had those in the past. I use a fanless iMac every day for the last 6 years. The drives make faint access noises from time to time, but that's it. I think you will see more activity for computers that use flash storage for operation, but that's still a little expensive to get anything useful, yet.
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November 11th, 2006, 02:22 PM
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| I don't think Apple would worry to much about those machines, coming from a brand that is not a house hold name, like Sony doesn't worry about a brand called japsmadethis or something. Competition continues... and the bigger companys always win
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November 11th, 2006, 02:46 PM
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| £424.18 for a 1GHz machine, with 1GB RAM and a 2GB "hard drive". I suppose if I had money to burn, why not? Otherwise, I doubt there is a market for such a thing. There's a market for quiet PCs, and there are many about. As for completely silent PCs, I would buy one just for the novelty of it  |
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#5
November 11th, 2006, 03:25 PM
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| From time to time, Apple has sold computers which were fanless and quiet. The original Macintosh 128 was such a machine. The most recent silent computer was called iMac. As for using a flash drive rather than a hard drive for mass storage, well it is short-lived, expensive, and not particularly fast. Last edited by MisterMe; November 11th, 2006 at 07:09 PM. |
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November 11th, 2006, 03:42 PM
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ho ho ho yer daft racist, you. yes apple used to make fanless computers. then the G5 came out, and we've not looked back...
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November 11th, 2006, 06:34 PM
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| there are whole companies in the pc world that only make silent cooling systems for computers, and have been for a while. so there have been silent pcs for quite some time, and it hasn't effect apple yet.
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November 11th, 2006, 07:52 PM
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| As far as I'm concerned, my laptop is silent. Sure, it has fans, but you don't hear them. Such a PC, at least at that price point, seems unreasonable. The notion of using flash as main storage is interesting though. Perhaps it would be useful to have applications in a fast-response flash system, and store media on traditional disks..
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