The whooshing sound is common to the new Sony drives. In fact, they
include a separate sheet with the instructions advising that the sound
should not be considered a defect.
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ScottGee1 wrote:
> Noise problems are not unique to Macs.
>
> The new Dell (yuck) on my desk at work makes a very loud
> whooshing/spinning sound every time it reads a CD. It bothers my
> co-workers enough that I don't listen to music from CD. I've gone
> 'old-school' and use my cassette Walkman instead!
>
> ScottGee1
>
> On 1/24/07, Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> SNIP!
>
>> There's a bunch of Macs at work, and the main problem with noise isn't
>>the drives, it's the fans. When you get an iMac going full steam
>>compiling software, the fans speed up until it's like there's a little
>>tornado on your desk -- even with the older towers sitting under the
>>desk, they can still be distracting.
>>
>> I guess that's the problem with the iMac form factor -- while it's
>>nice and compact and stuff, there's not the same amount of room spare to
>>put in quieter, slower, and thus bigger cooling fans like you can with
>>more generic PC towers.
>>
>> -- dan
>
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