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vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



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SO DEMANDING posted:

yeah seriously, designing computers to actually be quiet is a recent development

everything used to be noisy. i miss the sound floppy drives would make when you'd boot up a computer

I really want to make a fanless computer because I think it would be cool. can't really justify dropping the $$$ on another expensive computer that I don't need just because it would be cool tho

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vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



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MrMoo posted:

A lot of Chinese print tech books are simply translations of Japanese books with the same diagrams, so everything is old. The Japanese really love writing really long and quite nice technical articles, they still publish a lot of monthly magazines with oodles of detailed content it is an amazing contrast to a UK or US Linux magazine that has retarded articles about learning ls.

Its a shame that english language technical writing mostly sucks, and barely ever extends beyond the documentation :eng99:

vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



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MrMoo posted:

These are probably expensive: http://airtop-pc.com

Fanless barebones systems: http://www.cappuccinopc.com/solutions/fanless_mini_pc.asp

or build your own so you get use a super-loving cool heatsink like this http://www.quietpc.com/nof-icepipe

although that thing is so big you would probably also need to build your own case too

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