jts@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Jim Sasaki) (07/14/87)
> [People used to complain the Mac needed a fan, and now] everyone has an SE > and "sure wishes it didn't have a fan." Nope. People wish it didn't have a NOISY fan. People would be ecstatic with a SILENT fan, they'd grumble occasionally with a not-so-quiet fan, but people are complaining now because it's a very noisy fan. It's not the fan, it's the Noise The Fan Makes. > Me personally? I'd love not to have a fan, but back at school ... it was so > loud that if I had an SE I wouldn't have noticed it. Here in my cube I am > subjected to stereo fans from my HD20 and my SE, but I guess I am used to it, > because except for "I hate fan" postings, I never think about them. The ambient noise level in offices can be quite high and can drown out machine noises. The home environment is different. (At least, mine is.) Part of the trouble is that the SE fan "whines." Some of the people who don't think the fan is annoying may just be less sensitive to high frequency sound; frequency-specific hearing differences are not as uncommon as you might think. For what it's worth, I'd be less annoyed if my double-floppy SE were no louder than the two hard-disk SE's I've run across, but that just isn't true. Look at it from my point of view: noise level is important to me, so before I bought an SE, I checked its noise level. Surprise! -- the SE I get is significantly noisier than the one I saw at the demo. How am I supposed to feel? -- Jim Sasaki (jts@gvax.cs.cornell.edu, cornell!jts)