On 3/13/05, at 11:27 PM, Tom Warner, <tom at dfind.com> said: >I'm sorry for your friend but I'm sitting in front of a beautiful 20" >whisper quiet G5 iMac that has been utterly trouble free and has the >quietest hard drive and optical drive I've ever heard. > >The fans have never gone flat out except when booting from TechTool. > >One heck of a lot faster than my 667 TiBook and *SOOO much* quieter. > >It's also noticably faster (and has quieter drives) than my daughters >G4 iMac. I like my 20" G5 iMac very much, but the fan for the HD (ST3160023AS) fan is noisy at 5000+ RPM. It's hard to figure out why the HD runs so hot while I'm working only w/ e-mail and surfing the web.