I went with the Macbook. I'll report back when I get it. I have access to 15" and 17" Macbook Pros and I'll be able to make a good comparison.

I'm planning to swap the drive for a 320 gb WD Scorpion.

I'm about to bite the bullet. Which is noisier, Macbook or Macbook Pro? I'm wondering mostly about fan behavior and default fan operation because I might swap out the HDD for SDD anyway.

Thanks for the input. I have been looking at some posts about CF/usb flash and realize now there are a lot of hacks necessary to use it as a system disk. I'm sure this will change a lot over the next few years though. Right now I feel like CF/usb flash deserve 0 stars for practicality. (Linux isnt p...

I see a lot of posts about 3.5" drives, 2.5" notebook drives, and a few about solid state drives. There are a few other quiet storage options that I don't see much mention of (and they're hard to search for), such as 1.8" ipod-size hdd, and the CF card-size hdd ... As well as flash memory options in...

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I just replaced the 92mm CPU fan in my Dell SC420 with a Nexus Real Silent. The original Delta fan in the Dell was connected to a special 5 pin header on the motherboard (but 4 pins are used). Of course, I can't connect the Nexus fan to that. When I boot, the computer reports a CPU fan warning and I...

these guys were just fooling around like kids taking apart a radio. hardly a test or study. i wont hold it against them. i did learn a lot by reading posts from gmeyer on their forum, though. almost all consumer heatpipes are water based.

This is really cool. Similar to what I did in college with a cardboard box and fullsize atx. I remember a similar electrical buzz , but it came from the power supply i think. This little rig is a proof that these utility pc's could be sold for 100 bucks. I always heard that regular flash memory can'...

oh that thing is so ghetto fugly fantastic. I love the wood planks, dowels, and velcro. And nasty rough edge USB holes.

But i gotta say. 6 fans + 3 hard drives doesn't look too quiet.
my ears are hurting just lookin at it...

Hmm- that sounds interesting-
but real quick, how does the nas work? Do you have to mount network drives? That might get annoying.

i'm in the same boat, looking for a silent GPU and i play UT and UT3. i require ATI so it will work with my ATI HDTV wonder. I have been leaning toward the Asus X1600 silent PCI-e , either 256 m or 512 m. However - I am not too picky about the UT3 performance, or any newer game performance for that ...

Hi guys. I just registered here, but, I am not new to silent computing... Since my soph year at Iowa State I was setting up dangerous electrical hazards with fanless power supplies and computer components in open air cardboard rigs. I have shocked myself on power supply heatsinks countless times. Al...

dang dude, 128 GB ssd - what's that gonna set you back, $2500?