Re: Re: video card redux

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Frank Barknecht wrote:

Now how could I get a quiet laptop?

By buying one? Quiet laptops are not hard to find. Most Intel laptops
with Intel GFX cards (Centrino etc.) are very quiet. E.g. my MSI S260
Centrino 1.6Ghz is completely silent unless it's really under load,
then the fan kicks in (at 60°C) which is healthy. But normally I only
get this high load when I'm running complex Pd patches, and these are
loud anyways. ;)

My Toshiba laptop (1.5GHz Celeron) is completely silent. Even the fan is almost inaudible when it comes on, which generally only happens under intense disk load or high CPU usage.

My wife's old Sony Viao Superslim Pro was incredibly quiet. It was small, encased in a magnesium case that did a great job of functioning as a heatsink, and had no CD or floppy drive to kick up any noise. It had one small fan for the CPU, and I could never hear the fan at all.

Of course, the Superslim Pro line wasn't exactly cheap, then, and probably isn't cheap now, either.

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