I have a LCD iMac, and it's very quiet. I went upstairs one day to get some water, and when I came down I thought I heard an odd noise. I thought that my speakers were humming quietly, nope, just the iMac running. My friends house is networked with a couple G4's that are on 24 hours a day, and the house always carries the nice gentle hum of electricity.
Spender's solution: Buy a whole bunch of USB extension cables and put your computer in another room. Running X, you shouldn't need to touch it that often. If you need to flip CDs frequently, get a FireWire CD drive. Zero noise. The cables and drive can run into big bucks, though.
Thinker's solution: Wear gun-protection ear-cups, possibly over headphones. Gentle silence.
Pragmatist's solution: Get used to it, or even add to it. The modern world is actually very noisy, often as noisy as the offending computer. There's the humm of the wires in the walls, fluorescent lights, monitors, idle speakers, conversations in nearby rooms, traffic, wind rushing around modern buildings, and so on. You're used to all these things because they generally don't have a pattern that matches your annoyance frequency. That frequency changes through the day, and behaves differently in each person, but having a guy tap his pencil fifteen times a minute in the library may drive you nuts, where a girl at the end of the row trembling her leg against the table at sixty cycles is no problem. So either zen out, or put a summer comfort fan next to your desk that will add gently to the noise. If you set up the right combo of devices, you can even get a pleasing semi-musical beat. They used to recommend white-noise from an untuned radio, but there isn't enough space on the spectrum to find that anymore. Radio Shack sells white-noise generators.
Engineer's Solution: Encase tower in home-built sound-proof chamber. Surround with insulation and refridgerate. Overclock to 1.333GHz. Also makes a handy storage place for beer and finger foods.
<strong>when working, it does not matter taht much, but man
fan and computer noise when you are trying to sleep, I CANT STAND IT!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, you should try and keep the computer out of the bedroom when at all possible. It has got to be the least romantic thing in a room when you have a girl over
Are you kidding me? You would rather have the fan noise lowered by 15-20db than have screaming fast speeds? What a joke! What Apple needs is to forget about the fan noise and get some faster everything! </strong><hr></blockquote>
No doubt. Besides, I can (and have) modified my QS733 to be about 40% quieter. I CAN'T make it 40% faster all on my own!
"I bought my sister a Lime iMac Dv. When got it it was TOTALLy quiet.
Now the CRT hums more. When asleep it is totaly silent still."
As a CRT ages, the shadow mask slowly deforms. Electrons hitting it heat it up and push on it. Electrons decelerating as they hit the mask and the phosphors create a magnetic field. The aiming equipment for the electron stream emits a strong magnetic field which is shielded and shaped not to go outside the monitor, but which does reach the mask.
Once the shadow mask is deformed, it isn't tight anymore and it hums as the electrons hit it and in harmony with the aiming fields. Eventually these trembling vibrations of the mask become visible as low-frequency fluctuations in brightness or colour at all refresh rates.
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How are they not supported by Apple anymore?</strong><hr></blockquote>
what i was trying to say is more like "production was terminated in july 2001"
forgive me for i am european
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what i was trying to say is more like "production was terminated in july 2001"
forgive me for i am european
Oh, ok.
No problem
fan and computer noise when you are trying to sleep, I CANT STAND IT!
Thinker's solution: Wear gun-protection ear-cups, possibly over headphones. Gentle silence.
Pragmatist's solution: Get used to it, or even add to it. The modern world is actually very noisy, often as noisy as the offending computer. There's the humm of the wires in the walls, fluorescent lights, monitors, idle speakers, conversations in nearby rooms, traffic, wind rushing around modern buildings, and so on. You're used to all these things because they generally don't have a pattern that matches your annoyance frequency. That frequency changes through the day, and behaves differently in each person, but having a guy tap his pencil fifteen times a minute in the library may drive you nuts, where a girl at the end of the row trembling her leg against the table at sixty cycles is no problem. So either zen out, or put a summer comfort fan next to your desk that will add gently to the noise. If you set up the right combo of devices, you can even get a pleasing semi-musical beat. They used to recommend white-noise from an untuned radio, but there isn't enough space on the spectrum to find that anymore. Radio Shack sells white-noise generators.
<strong>when working, it does not matter taht much, but man
fan and computer noise when you are trying to sleep, I CANT STAND IT!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, you should try and keep the computer out of the bedroom when at all possible. It has got to be the least romantic thing in a room when you have a girl over
Back on topic, it is very quiet, but the fan does run. I've noticed two speeds:
slow - usually running, but almost inaudible. At night when I'm still working I can hear it, but that's only cause everything else is off.
fast - generally turns up when I'm ripping a bunch of CDs or other disk-intensive actions. Still rather quiet, though.
and off while asleep and if it's cool enough (not often since my house doesn't have AC)
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Are you kidding me? You would rather have the fan noise lowered by 15-20db than have screaming fast speeds? What a joke! What Apple needs is to forget about the fan noise and get some faster everything!
No doubt. Besides, I can (and have) modified my QS733 to be about 40% quieter. I CAN'T make it 40% faster all on my own!
<strong>doh, the quitestet mac is the one you don't hear !
Really? I didn't know that
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Really? I didn't know that
You didn't ?
You mean, you have now, ..let's see.. 5358 posts made (on Friday, 21.06.02, 23:11 GMT +1), and you didn't know that ?.
no, EmAn, that's not good...
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You didn't ?
You mean, you have now, ..let's see.. 5358 posts made (on Friday, 21.06.02, 23:11 GMT +1), and you didn't know that ?.
no, EmAn, that's not good...
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> I guess there's just something wrong with me.
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<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> I guess there's just something wrong with me.
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You guess ?
Now, after 5368 posts (SAT 22.06.02 GMT +01), you still guess ?
It looks like posting too much, isn't that good for you...
Now the CRT hums more. When asleep it is totaly silent still.
The Cube was the most quiet I believe with an LCD.
but the mac would overheat.
since apple prides itself on its industrial design , sound insulation should be a major issue , methinx.
Now the CRT hums more. When asleep it is totaly silent still."
As a CRT ages, the shadow mask slowly deforms. Electrons hitting it heat it up and push on it. Electrons decelerating as they hit the mask and the phosphors create a magnetic field. The aiming equipment for the electron stream emits a strong magnetic field which is shielded and shaped not to go outside the monitor, but which does reach the mask.
Once the shadow mask is deformed, it isn't tight anymore and it hums as the electrons hit it and in harmony with the aiming fields. Eventually these trembling vibrations of the mask become visible as low-frequency fluctuations in brightness or colour at all refresh rates.
My grandparents do have a bloody loud old TV, but I haven't had any monitors producing much in the way of noise.