It has a FAN, it's still NOISY
I just spent 2 hours with the new PowerMac yesterday at the Apple Store.
YES, it has a fan. It actually has 3, one big one that blows across the huge heatsink that cools the processors. Yes, this is a quiet big fan, horray Apple!! But, they blew it on the next two.
A second one blows across the internal CD/DVD drives.
A third fan inside the PowerSupply of the unit.
The POWER SUPPLY fan is VERY NOISY. This was a busy store and the whine of that fan was unmistakable. I walked over to an older PowerMac and it was quieter!!!
YIKES!! So don't congratulate Apple just yet. It's a really loud and noisy box.
But the 867 and 1 ghz boxes do perform well with the final release of Jaguar.
OTHER:
- They are now using IBM hard drives and not Seagate Barracuda's. Too Bad, Seagate's were the quietest drives on the planet. Guess they had to start buying IBM's hard drives to use IBM's PowerPC Processors.
- They still are not going to steal a single Windows XP user with a new PC with this box. They are only going to steal Windows 3.x users who haven't updated in a while and think that $3500 is a reasonable price for a computer!
- Wake up Apple, you're falling behind......
I just spent 2 hours with the new PowerMac yesterday at the Apple Store.
YES, it has a fan. It actually has 3, one big one that blows across the huge heatsink that cools the processors. Yes, this is a quiet big fan, horray Apple!! But, they blew it on the next two.
A second one blows across the internal CD/DVD drives.
A third fan inside the PowerSupply of the unit.
The POWER SUPPLY fan is VERY NOISY. This was a busy store and the whine of that fan was unmistakable. I walked over to an older PowerMac and it was quieter!!!
YIKES!! So don't congratulate Apple just yet. It's a really loud and noisy box.
But the 867 and 1 ghz boxes do perform well with the final release of Jaguar.
OTHER:
- They are now using IBM hard drives and not Seagate Barracuda's. Too Bad, Seagate's were the quietest drives on the planet. Guess they had to start buying IBM's hard drives to use IBM's PowerPC Processors.
- They still are not going to steal a single Windows XP user with a new PC with this box. They are only going to steal Windows 3.x users who haven't updated in a while and think that $3500 is a reasonable price for a computer!
- Wake up Apple, you're falling behind......