after listening to sound clips of the Zalman 4'33" i can say its nice in theory, but silly in practice. you can buy a metal-cased laptop for $1000, put it on a metal table. and the fan wont even come on since the case and the table itself are giant sinks. i usualy set my laptop on the radiator (in the summer) when i want the fan to shut up.. likewise, sitting in an auditorium, listening to people cough (or hard drives seek) and paying for the privelege seems absurd my 3 shekels

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 08:41 +0200, John Anderson wrote: Not that I remember (but then I don't remember much about their specs right now), the cases we have are currently housing X2 4400 processors and so far they are doing well. Obviously you have to heed their warnings about proper mobos and video cards, not all of them will fit in the case because of the heat pipes (and some processors will be above what the case can handle). We[*] really wanted silent machines and we considered and tested several options - this was the one that worked best (but very expensive, of course). The new machines match a complete renovation of our building which was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake (the whole third floor was declared off limits). It was finally fixed after a looong delay... we moved in last August after a year and a half in temporary trailers). -- Fernando [*] well, I was pushing hard for that. The story I usually tell dates back quite a few years when computers where even noisier, a big power outage at Stanford blacked out the whole building and most of campus. It was late evening and I was going through the building unplugging computers and equipment with a flashlight and it was a _different_ building - the silence was just beautiful...