> -----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 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]>
