i replaced the two 40mm fans in my sb65g2 PSU several months ago. i've learned a couple of lessons which i'd love to pass on: 1. several posts have talked about the 'cpu cooler kit' from compusa as a source for the adda fans. i bought two of these are the ones i got are NOT adda fans, not even relab...

post the write-up, merlyn, we're interested!

slam

does the mini come with the OS and applications disks that would allow you to reinstall the system if you replaced the drive? unless apple is drastically departing from all their other models, you get both a restore cd (to set the unit back to factory shipping software config) and an OS cd with the...

>>> Yellow, Mac fans! Does anyone think it'll drop in price anytime soon? <<<[/quote] actually i think it will go UP in price. i think you will see it on ebay for more than what the apple store sells it for, because folks will want one RIGHT NOW and can't wait for the lead time of weeks or months th...

Hello: That would seem that the only air flow is by passive "siphon" driven by the heated air exiting the back and drawing in air around the rim of the bottom edges. Nice...if I'm right? probably not. all the reports i've had so far indicate one low-speed fan or blower. it's unlikely to have the ri...

I also wonder what HDD it will be, as Toshiba is their partner for ipods and given this SPCR review , it'll be like a 'cuda IV or quieter if other brand (see other reviews). hi dago, as i posting in this thread http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?p=147725#147725 it's a toshiba mk8025gas,...

daba wrote:It's funny how there are two of these same conversations going on in the same bulletin boards.

not quite the same, daba! we've mostly avoided platform wars over here. :^)

still, i threw my two cents worth into the fray on the other thread. thanks for the catch.

slam

hi all, i got a little hands-on time with this unit at macworld, and i posted some pics and info in another silentpcreview thread here: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=18050 there's a little less platform-wars over on that thread so it's bit more on-topic. so, some researched facts ...

Yet a Google for the drive, "toshiba mk8025gas" says that it is a 4200RPM 2.5" laptop drive. I guess we'll have to wait for some real-world MiniMac autopsies. Pete nice catch mudboy! then the technician i was chatting with was wrong. i didn't think they could fit a 3.5" drive in there. here's an im...

yep, edu discount is only $20, but margins have got to be thin on this baby... Also, I went back to Apple's site, and the QTVR of the thing shows an even bigger external PS, as well as the one that goes with the display... Oh well! thanks iclark, i found that quicktime movie too, and made changes t...

you're welcome for the pics. re: PSU. strange that apple would not mention it. then again i could be completely blowing it here; as i left i overheard someone say that the external PSU was for the new Apple LCD display in the aluminum frame. i was a bad investigator here and didn't follow the power ...

i was in here pretty quick! and i posted from the lobby with airport! well i'm back on the machine and checking it out further for heat and noise. i put my hand on the rear vent and confirmed that it is NOT moving very much air at all. since the ambient is too high here for me to listen to the unit,...

http://www.extraaction.com/images/IMG0215.JPG the apple macmini display at the expo. http://www.extraaction.com/images/IMG0216.JPG here's the unit itself. clean! the front has a slot-loaded optical drive (combo or super) and power. http://www.extraaction.com/images/IMG0217.JPG that's the rear vent ...

well, there it is! it's real, and it's REALLY SMALL. we're talking 6.5" per side and about 2" tall. if you stacked about five of them on top of each other they'd be smaller than the apple G4 cube. a dozen of them might still be smaller than a shuttle XPC. let me put this another way: this unit is so...

well, i'm here in sunny (ha!) san francisco now, awaiting the macworld expo tomorrow. i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the rumors are true! i've got the pocketcam handy and i'll post some pics if i can. i'll try to hear the noise levels, but the ambient at macwold is about the level of someone sh...

it looks like the lovechild of a VCR and a laptop; or like some of the first laptops i ever used (who remembers the mac "luggable"?) it's pretty cool! it's obvious that it's meant for the home entertainment center crowd. what i like about the XPC form factor tho is that you can pick it up and tuck i...

true, but it's a Pentium M. it's, what, 25W of power? so little heat, so little need for custom cooling. and with a little hacking you could still attach some custom fans to the stock heatsink. this board might be a bad pick for a watercooling system, but it should run quiet just fine. also, keep an...

yes, the macworld expo is next week, january 9th-14th or so. the new products are announced on tuesday during steve job's keynote. i too have been comparing this concept to the PowerMac Cube G4. i thought the cube was an awesome idea and an awesome design, and suffered massively from a poor marketin...

the DFI board seems like the better bet right now. reviews have it overclockable to a 533 FSB, far better than the measely 400 FSB offered stock on PM cpus. the aopen board was overclockable but not to anywhere near 533. at 533 MHz FSB the DFI board was whooping P4 Extreme Edition's butt. well, ok, ...

hi folks, it's only a rumor right now, but a likely one. Apple is reportedlly releasing a new low-end macintosh based on the iMac configuratiopn, sans dsiplay, at the january 10th MacWorld expo. the unit will have a low end G4 CPU, 256MB RAM, DVDROM/CD-RW, a lower-end graphics card (ATI7500?), 10/10...

hi, i found another Pentium M motherboard, this one with either Mini-PCI or Mini-AGP on board: http://www.aristaipc.com/embedded_boards/atx-6710.html it also includes a PCMCIA slot and LVDS interface. i have an email out inquiring about single unit pricing. this would look great in a hoojum cubit3 c...

MA-ATI isn't good enough? Looks like that card has no DVI-out. That's why I want an AGP slot. i downloaded and read the manual for the MA-ATI and it appears to do both DVI and VGA out. both are supplied by attaching a ribbon cable to pins on the board, and the end of the ribbon cable has the approp...

hi again! i just answered one of my own questions with this thread, regarding silencing the shuttle with silentX: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=11564 somehow it hadn't shown up in my forum searches, but i found it while manually paging through the topics. there's sooooo much info ...

hi all! first, thanks for having such an awesome site. i've been researching SFF and quiet systems for about two months now, and this site just takes the cake. This is my first post to SPCR. i've done buttloads of research and have my pick narrowed down to three choices: an AOpen XC Cube (probably a...