<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Craig Treleaven</b> <<a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 2:42 PM -0200 10/19/07, Adilson Oliveira wrote:<br>>my idea is exactly not using the mac mini<br>>as it's quite expensive.<br><br>Really? I'd like to know where one can get a tiny, silent machine that is HD capable for less...
<br><br>Craig</blockquote><div><br><br>Just a nit to pick here, but I see this myth floated out there a lot. A mac mini is not silent. It is extremely quiet under light load, but it sounds like a jet aircraft when its fan starts going.
<br><br>Additionally, most of its quietness comes from the fact that it isn't nearly as small as advertised. It doesn't have an internal power supply, but an external power brick that is half the size of the computer!
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