It is quieter than my wife's Sony Vaio laptop. If there is music playing, or if the refrigerator is running, the small noise it makes is drowned out completely. I am usually using it to control slimserver for a few minutes at a time while I select music, then I put it to sleep (unless I am reading a book on it). In sleep mode it is completely silent.
I will be replacing the HDD this week - going from 5.1 GB with 512k buffer to 80GB with 8 MB buffer. It is sort of silly to put so much storage in that machine, but it is hard to find an HDD smaller than about 40 GB anymore unless you get a refurb or used drive, then it costs as much as a new, larger capacity drive. I'm getting a Seagate Momentus drive which is supposed to be very quiet and very low power but also pretty fast (5 year warranty, too!). You can get a 60 GB 5400 rpm 2nd generation drive for $60 or pay $65 and get 80 GB 5400 rpm 3rd generation drive. Computer economics are strange. I ordered from newegg. It should arrive tomorrow or Wednesday, then I have to figure out how to install the OS on it without a FDD, CDROM, or network connection on the tablet. I will be updating my web site with the exact procedure once I figure it out. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30964 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
