[sdiy] new computer

[Simon Gatrall]

At 1:38 AM +0200 4/7/04, jhaible wrote:
>Remember my deep aversion against noisy fans in the
>music studio? Kept me from doing any music related
>stuff on the PC so far. I hope this will change soon.
>I ordered one of these today:
>http://www.deltatronic.de/int/pc/index.html
>Can't say if it's worth the extra money yet, but I'm
>eagerly waiting to find out. (It will come by the
>end of next week.)

I do product engineering for a living.  I've worked on a number of 
computer enclosure projects.  I do not understand why convection 
cooled PCs are so rare.  I realize it is harder/more expensive, but 
if more companies sold computers without fans, I bet that only really 
cheap people or people interested in performance over all else would 
buy noisy computers.

I know the noise bothers some people like me a lot, but it seems that 
many people have just gotten so used to it that they don't care.  It 
really shouldn't be that way.  Apple is the only major computer 
company that has sold a lot of fanless desktop computers (original 
Macs, many of the early iMacs), but even they are not as consistent 
about this feature ("wind tunnel" G4, Xserve).
-- 
Simon Gatrall
gatrall at pacbell.net