[P1] Clamshell battery period | 4.1.7 firmware?

[Joe Jones]

My iBook is much quieter with IBM's new 40GNX drive. It's a little more 
responsive too, since the new drive has 8Mb cache over the original 2Mb 
in the old drive, and has a higher spindle speed.

It was a little disconcerting to be installing OS X and only being able 
to hear the optical drive making any noise.

Joe

On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 16:03 Europe/London, Marc van Gemert wrote:
>
>
>> Hard drive noise varies with each machine. If you took 5 iMacs from 
>> the same
>> line, I bet all their drives would sound a little different, even 
>> though
>> they are the same model and same size hard drive. The iMac I'm using 
>> to type
>> this on is fairly quiet, but my Sister's iMac is a little louder. 
>> Luck of
>> the draw I guess.
>
> Yes indeed, my B&W G3 is rather quiet, a friend's iMac is a bit 
> noisier,
> my QuickSilver G4 933 MHz at work is very quiet, even the HD in it is
> very quiet, but this is in a working environment so there is background
> noise.