<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 4:15 PM -0400 10/19/07, Chris Ribe wrote:<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>I have two Intel Minis and they most definitely do not make any jet aircraft sounds. Even while transcoding and playing back HD material simultaneously. Maybe the old G4's did. </blockquote><div><br><br>Perhaps I am unfairly projecting. I can't stand to be in the same room as my macbook when the fans kick on (which is whenever the cpu usage goes consistently over 25% total) because of the combination of fan noise and pitch. The mac mini that I had on my desk for several weeks recently was at least as loud , but in fairness, the fan ran at 100% all the time because I accidentally left the fan controller unplugged when I swapped the HD into my macbook.
<br><br>As for G4s, don't even suggest such a thing!<br><br>The G4 was a low power processor, in every sense of the word. <br><br>Earlier this year I went from a 15" 1.67Ghz PowerBook to a 1.83Ghz macbook. I liked almost everything about the powerbook better: the screen, the keyboard, the battery life, the DVI port. I say *almost* everything, because all those things are vastly outweighed by the fact that the macbook is *5 times faster*. I shit you not, for certain tasks, like transcoding DV to
h.264, the macbook completes tasks *10* times faster than the powerbook. Like, what used to take 10 minutes now takes 1 minute. <br><br>The ability to run a windows VM on the macbook is a push, because it's what got my boss to buy the new computer, but it means I have to run windows (puke).
<br><br>-chris<br></div><br><div><br><br> </div><br><div><br> </div><br><div><br> </div><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 377 2020 x248<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">
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