tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) (01/20/88)
Has anyone compared the two SE fan replacements (the "SE Silencer" and the "Seabreeze" (?) fan) to each other? Which one is quieter? Which one does the best job of eliminating screen jitter? How much $$$ was it to have it installed? (I heard $50.00 for the SE Silencer, including installation, at the MacWorld Expo. vs. $100.00 to have the Seabreeze installed....) Do you get what you pay for? Thanks in advance. -Ted P.S. Please tell whether you heard/saw the fan in an SE or a SE HD20!!! --------------------------------------------------- Ted Johnson Hewlett-Packard Design Technology Center (408)553-3555 UUCP: ...hplabs!hpcea!hpcilzb!tedj
t-jacobs@utah-cs.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) (01/23/88)
I picked up one of the SE Silencers. It is about half as noisy. Beware that the instructions refere to the version of SE which uses wires to hook up to the fan. My SE has a directly soldered fan and I had to solder the new fans wires on where the old fan came off. You have to unsolder the old fan to get it off and you can do some damage if you don't be careful! I don't see any screen jitter. -- Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) (01/30/88)
SE Fan Replacement SUMMARY:
Three or 4 people e-mailed me info. about their SE
fan replacement experiences.
-The SE Silencer is very good. It eliminates
screen jitter, and is about 1/2 as loud as
the original fan.
-The official Apple fan is *quieter* than the
ComputerWare fan (Seabreeze), and eliminates
screen jitter. (This info. came from someone
who went from a Seabreeze fan to the official
new Apple fan.
Unfortunately, when I called Stanford bookstore's
MicroDisc Center (where I got my SE), on Tuesday,
they said that they *don't* have the new SE fan
yet, and claimed that Apple "hasn't officially
announced a new fan yet". Anyone know of a dealer
in the Bay Area that *does* have the new Apple SE fans?
-Ted Johnson
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