Gordon Hempton wrote:
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> Does anyone have a recommendation for the quietest laptop/notebook computer?
>
> I hear that IBM has released a new liquid bearing hard drive that should be
> nearly silent and the Power Book is fairly quiet already with a cool pad
> under it, but I am leaning towards a PC laptop since Windows XP is fairly
> stable with high memory installs.
Check out how the laptop cools itself. Often it's a blower, and a
Pentium laptop will need this more than a Powerbook will. It produces
more heat. My Sony Vaio runs that blower a lot, the various powerbooks
hardly ever. So make sure you test whatever it is after it's had some
time to get warm.
On hard drives the quietest IDE 2.5", which is what most of these use
that I've run across is the Fujitsu. You can barely hear it with your
ear on the powerbook. I've not heard the new IBM, however, but it would
be hard to be any quieter.
Walt
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