Quiet Macs

Király wrote:

> Can anyone point me towards comparisons of noise emissions of the
> various desktop Mac models? My eMac is very noisy and I'm Iooking for
> something quieter. I have Googled around and haven't found anything
> recent enough to be useful. Thanks.

I don't have a comparison chart or numbers, but this is my experience:

Annoyingly loud:

- eMac
- all "tower-style"-G4 models, especially the G4 MDD
- iMacs up to the early G5-models

Rather quiet:

- most Power Mac G5 models (some get loud under heavy load)

Very quiet:

- G4 Cube (with silent HDD and passively cooled graphics card)
- the last G5 iMacs
- all current models including the Mac Pro
- all portables

HTH,
Ingo.
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Thanks Ingo!

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.
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Ingo Paschke wrote in
@mid.individual.net:

> Király wrote:
>
>> Can anyone point me towards comparisons of noise emissions of the
>> various desktop Mac models? My eMac is very noisy and I'm Iooking for
>> something quieter. I have Googled around and haven't found anything
>> recent enough to be useful. Thanks.
>
> I don't have a comparison chart or numbers, but this is my experience:
>
> Annoyingly loud:
>
> - eMac
> - all "tower-style"-G4 models, especially the G4 MDD
> - iMacs up to the early G5-models
>
> Rather quiet:
>
> - most Power Mac G5 models (some get loud under heavy load)
>
> Very quiet:
>
> - G4 Cube (with silent HDD and passively cooled graphics card)
> - the last G5 iMacs
> - all current models including the Mac Pro
> - all portables
>
> HTH,
> Ingo.

Just to put an exclamation point on that list, I just replaced my G4 MDD
with a 24" iMac. I've gone from the windtunnel racket that I can hear all
the way down the hall to whisper quiet.

If there's a downside, it's that the gentle hum lulls me to sleep if I'm
working late at night

Roddy
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