I think it was an old-computer vs new-computer argument. The fan in my TP770 (on 24/7 for years) is still practically silent, and almost never runs. I've heard plenty of complaints of newer Macs and MacBooks as well. I figure the quality is similar, but both have done some cost-cutting over the years.
They pay $0.10 for a fan because a $0.10 fan is usually good enough, and gets the ThinkPad into a wider market. I'm sure Apple is using the same fan. - Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, David Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think a Mac II fan will fit in a X61s, let alone a netbook. > > (Any chance we can keep Apple vs. Any Other Machine arguments off this > list? Especially the gratuitous ones? They are almost always irrelevant, > unnecessarily acerbic, and completely devoid of any value whatsoever.) > > DR > > ------------------------------**-------------------- > From: "Hauke Fath" > <[email protected].**DE<[email protected]> > > > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:51 AM > To: "David Ross" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] x61s fan noise > > > 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 >> >> -- >> "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO) >> >> >> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
