Linked by Adam S on Sat 17th Jun 2006 03:07 UTC, submitted by chr1skearney
Many people who have called Apple to complain about excessive heat coming from their newly purchased computers have been told that the MacBook and the MacBook Pro are in fact Notebook computers and not Laptop computers. This article details why they are totally full of it.
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The G4 QS or MD had noise problems, but most computers from Dell sound worse.
It of course depends on what model you have and also what video card one has chosen. A Dell Dimension with a gaming video card is going to be far noisier system than the Optiplex line with a passively-cooled video option, especially the very quiet small-form factor chassis. (Not that Dell doesn't have their own hardware "issues", believe me, but that's an entirely different discussion for some other time perhaps.)
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The main point Simba is making is right and does not depend on the particular layout of this particular machine.
There is a reason why a company has a long term record of heat/noise problems. Apple has had far too many for it to be explicable as an accident. The pattern at work is the triumph of lifestyle marketing over industrial design. Sometimes it leads to the noise of a jet engine taking off coming from a floorstander. Sometimes it leads to overheating.
Take a look at the Antec 180, and compare it to the Apple floorstanders. The Antec was designed by people who wanted the quietest, coolest, simplest to work on case they could make. The Mac was designed to impress people who know very little about hardware and who will buy it without hearing it running.