From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 05:12:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F4716A4DF for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 05:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Received: from ketralnis.com (melchoir.ketralnis.com [68.183.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A7B43D49 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 05:12:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Received: from [10.0.1.239] (ayla.wifi.int.ketralnis.com [10.0.1.239]) (authenticated bits=0) by ketralnis.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k845CnBQ056566 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 22:12:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: <3692C07B-CCCC-4756-9B33-6DA724481FF2@ketralnis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David King Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 22:12:45 -0700 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Re: Quiet computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:12:50 -0000 >> I am looking for a small computer that is silent or very quiet to sit >> in a home office. > I think you might want to wait a month or two until Intel Core 2 > "Conroe" and "Allendale" become more readily available. Indeed (less than a month later), a vendor called Shuttle just released this machine: They call it their X100 and it's just smaller than a cereal box. It has an Intel Core Duo in it. Does anyone have one of these by chance? Can anyone attest to the noise that it makes? Thanks for any information