On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:53, James Sparenberg wrote:

>    I think by bearingless they actually do mean sealed bearing.  It's
> more a case of marketing taking a technical term and misusing it to the
> point of extreme obfuscation of term (ie "Trusted Computing" by M$)
> rather than what it actually does mean.  But you are right the "sealed
> bearing" fans last seemingly  forever.  Don't know how long because the
> rest of the box gets so far out of date I never use the comp that long.
> (I've got one on a 233mhz pI that is 9 years old).
> 
> James

But the problem is that they specifically describe the bearing as
"magnetic tip driven."  In addition to that they also say
"bearingless".  This to me is inescapable verbage.

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