At 8:37 Uhr -1000 19.9.2011, David Ross wrote:
>Fans can get noisy (an progressively noisier over time) if the spindle is
>mounted even very slightly off-center.  Since the fan manufacturers get
>maybe 10 cents for each actual fan, and they are hand-assembled, I'm
>surprised there are any notebook fans at all that aren't noisy from day one.

Well, you get what you pay for, as they say. I have a Macintosh IIsi
running as a little server 24/7/356, and the case fan is still as quiet as
twenty years ago. I guess Apple paid more than ten cents for it then.

        hauke

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