> Apple says the newer models are quieter, but there's nothing wrong in > comparing one against the other, especially if the older model can be > had for really good price. The differences aren't that vast. As an owner of a dual 1.25GHz "old" MDD, it's really no noisier than my 7300 was. The only part that was particularly loud was when the fan would suddenly rev up in OS 9 (this never happened in OS X). The 4.4.8f2 firmware patch took care of that, and I don't think the new ones boot into OS 9 anymore anyway :-) -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser at stockholm.ptloma.edu -- Out of my mind (back in an hour). ------------------------------------------