>Isn't it funny how computers seem to have kicked into some kind of de-
>evolution? The Sinclair ZX-anything was small, cheap and silent. So was just
>about every micro "back then".
>The standard home PC nowadays is a bulking tower case with one buzzing HDD,
>one humming CDD, one fan for the PSU, one on top of the heatsinks on the CPU
>and one or more on top of the heatsinks on the graphics card. I don't think
>anyone 20 years ago, or even ten years ago, would have expected modern
>computers to be so noisy and prone to over-heating. It's obviously a syndrome
>of PC speed demons dictating every aspect of computer development.
There are quiet systems out now though. Most of Apple's
machines currently are pretty low key when it comes to noise. My
G3/450 sitting next to me is very quiet and it has 2 hard disks, a
DVD, and the one system fan all turning. At ~15 watts, the G3/G4
doesn't need the huge cooling fan/heatsink combos that the Pentiums
do at ~40 watts.
Jeff
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Received on Fri Jul 27 2001 - 17:42:22 BST