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Re: Totally silent laptop?

Posted by longtimequadowner (A) on April 5, 2006 at 15:51:37

In Reply to: Re: Totally silent laptop? posted by Frank25 on April 5, 2006 at 14:31:28:

Interesting, too bad about liquid cooling I thought the point was utter silence. My HP Pavailion N450 of a few years ago does have a fan, but I rarely if ever hear it and most of the time it's dead silent, so probably would do as well as liquid cooled. I know my current Compaq laptop is a bit noisy at the best of times, but when the CPU is really worked hard the fan REALLY kicks up - the HP never does that. That's my fear of putting my ear to the laptop in a store - the fan may adjust itself louder when under stess when I get it home which would be an unpleasant surprise (although playing audio shouldn't be too burdensome on the CPU).

Regarding the keyboard/mouse/screen comment - I just don't want some LCD driven server box, I need the full interface - and also my stereo is well hidden in my room, audio components are to be heard and not seen in my house, so I'd have nowhere to put a desktop even with a longish USB cable, it has to be a laptop that fits in my rack which most any modern laptop will do easily.

I'd read someone on this board said the Toshiba Satellites were quite silent, but if the current HP Pavilions are as silent as my old one that would work too - it's so hard to tell in the noisy stores though...

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