I will be happy to recommend a “quiet laptop”.
Please contact me offline.
BTW- Depending on your need, I can also recommend laptops with
better-than-average immunity for ESD and RF.
Since I am an engineer, and not a marketing person, you can trust that all
recommendations will be based on *data*.
In this case, months of accumulated factory audit data.
And, I agree with Ed’s comment below: that qualitative data should be at the
root of all discussions.
Contact me offline with your performance and functional requirements.
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Patrick Conway NCE.
Hewlett-Packard LAPTOP business Unit.
[email protected]
281-514-2259
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Price, Edward
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: EMC-PSTC
Subject: RE: SV: "Quiet" Laptop
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Grasso, Charles
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:50 PM
> To: [email protected]; Piotr Galka
> Cc: EMC-PSTC; John Woodgate
> Subject: RE: SV: "Quiet" Laptop
>
> I sincerely hope that you statement: "Finding a quite laptop
> or hub seem to be almost impossible" is wrong! After all
> there are many large laptop manufacturers spending zillions
> of (in our case) dollars to meet the EMC requirements.!!
True, but who markets their product with any claims of EMC excellence? We all
may be spending big bucks in our compliance efforts, but all we ever do is
slip a required statement in our Users Manual or mold a logo on the bottom of
our case.
Instead of quietly muttering that "we meet the minimum legally required
standards," is anybody daring to say something like "Our Wonderbox has 14
times less annoying electronic radiation!" Or how about something like "Our
Wonderbox still keeps working when others have crashed; we built this thing to
handle RF noise 3 times stronger than the government said we had to!"
Now I doubt your marketing would ever let you get away with anything like
that, because claiming how great you are, even if it's true, means alerting
the customer to certain problems in life. Marketing usually doesn't want
customers to think about problems when they sing their sales pitch. We will
have to wait for some maverick company to try this angle; who knows, it just
might work. Certainly, RF engineers have a couple of brand names in their head
when they think about low-noise pre-amps, so maybe the public reputation of an
EMC tough product is possible and desirable.
The original poster was asking an interesting question. While you shouldn't
choose a "lab queen" product, what's wrong with choosing the quietest among
the major brands? But even in this knowledgeable forum, we really didn't have
an answer. I'll pose a question; suppose, for your own personal desires, you
wanted a very low-emission gadget. If you went to any number of major consumer
electronics websites, and looked for compliance data, do you think you would
find even one that offers real performance data, not just a bland statement of
"meets the minimum requirements," to let you make any intelligent choice?
Right now, even we experts can't offer a good answer to the poster's question,
because we have no qualitative data.
Ed Price
[email protected] <blocked::mailto:[email protected]> WB6WSN
NARTE Certified EMC Engineer
Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab
Cubic Defense Applications
San Diego, CA USA
858-505-2780
Military & Avionics EMC Is Our Specialty
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