My PB arrived today...

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Scorched X

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 9, 2004

• #1

Is it normal for the combo drive to be pretty loud when playing a CD or copying files? It's nice and quiet when I tried playing a DVD.

 

invaLPsion

macrumors 65816

• Jul 9, 2004

• #2

Scorched X said:

Is it normal for the combo drive to be pretty loud when playing a CD or copying files? It's nice and quiet when I tried playing a DVD.

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Yep. No worries. It is quite normal for the drive to spin faster when copying files.

How loud are we talking about, though?

 

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Scorched X

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 9, 2004

• #3

Definetely too loud for class. I can understand to be loud when copying files, but I thought it would be relatively quiet when playing a cd. 😎

All in all, I'm not disappointed with my Powerbook, but I'm not impressed either. Maybe that's because this is my first notebook...

 

virividox

macrumors 601

• Jul 9, 2004

• #4

the cd could be unbalanced that could be causing the extra noise

 

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26139

Suspended

• Jul 9, 2004

• #5

Wait....

Scorched X said:

Definetely too loud for class. I can understand to be loud when copying files, but I thought it would be relatively quiet when playing a cd. 😎
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Too loud for class? What the hell are you in school for if you actually play dvds or cds during class?

I can see the occassional game of snood, but come on...

 

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Scorched X

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 10, 2004

• #6

appleretailguy said:

Too loud for class? What the hell are you in school for if you actually play dvds or cds during class?

I can see the occassional game of snood, but come on...

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It was a hypothetical scenario. 🙄

 

Rod Rod

macrumors 68020

• Jul 10, 2004

• #7

congrats on the new PowerBook. yup the optical drive noise level can be a little unnerving... but on the bright side, it's better to hear it than to have that sound drowned out by excessive fan noise.