[CUBE] Noise?

[Michael Blossom]

No noise was a selling point for the cube.  I think it's not surprising,
then, that quite a few cube owners consider that an important feature. 
Most people who aren't concerned about noise probably didn't buy a cube.

Personally, I use a G4 tower at work, and the contrast between that
constant white-noise/hum that I have to put up with all day and the
silence of the cube at home has turned me into somewhat of a silence snob
myself.  What you describe sounds horrific to me!  To each his own, I guess.

- Mike

>This may be off topic and I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I am
>curious.  What is this obsession with no noise?  Why is fan and drive
>noise a problem?  I'm just curious.  I work in a server room with 25-35
>very loud servers.  My home office has almost 50 boxes, at least 10-12
>up and running at all times.  My home Wintel PC, a dual 2ghz K7 MP has a
>total of 11 fans. It howls like a Lear winding up for take off. My
>favorite Mac systems aren't Mac's  but are my three Daystar Genesis MP
>clones  with 4-5 fans each.  Nothing quiet about them.  I worked in my
>previous life at high noise industrial sites.  After working for 6 weeks
>next to a pair of tandem 4000hp electrical motors the size of full size
>15 passenger van's, a cooling fan is almost inaudible.  Just curious as
>I have actually always liked the hum of fans and drives.  Reminds me of
>the mechanical/tech nature of my computers.
>
>I don't own a cube yet, but I'm looking for the right one at the right
>price.  I do own what I consider to be the G4 cube's ancestors, two NeXT
>Dimension cubes.
>
>James (no G4 cube yet, but looking)