I have just posted a string on behalf of all Cube owners voicing our sympathy and support for their plight to make MDD Power Macs quiet. If you have a few minutes to voice your support in any way, it would be helpful to do now. Thursday, Steve Jobs will be receiving by FedEx a petition from them that will include directions to their site http://www.g4noise.com which Steve will probably look at. The more Mac user participation the site has the better their chances of getting Apple to do something about their noise problems. Here's the location of my post. http://www.g4noise.com/forum/ index.php?s=11f324567250671a0a604d743ff1d4fe&act=ST&f=18&t=38&st=0#entry 67 where I wrote: Cube Owners Support Mdd Owners' Quest For Silence, We Have Near Silent Dual 1.2 GHz Macs I am adding this string to show a thread of sympathy, solidarity and support from those one quarter million of us who will die with our powerful Cubes still producing wonderful work in silence. We are now adding dual 800 MHz, dual GHz and dual 1.2 GHz processors to our Cubes with only the need for one small quiet 8 CM fan. We understand the need for silent computing more than any other Macintosh market segment. What has happened to the MDD community is something that has kept almost all of us from joining you. Your struggle is our struggle. I know I won't buy a PowerMac until these noise issues are addressed seriously and consistently by the Apple Computer Corporation. May all Cube owners please take a few minutes to place your vote and comment here to help the MDD owner community know that they are not alone in your conviction that power and silence need not be mutually exclusive features in one Macintosh computer. Please contribute in any small way you can if you believe silent computing is an important feature to retain with increased power. Thanks, Kunga