more from the 'Ian Molton school' of uk.rec.audio-ism:

you can buy truely silent PCs nowadays and it'll use less electricity
that way too.

Truly silent? Most 'quiet' home computers are still pretty loud! After a
lot of work I've got my main pc quiet enough now, quite a bit quieter than
most spinning CDPs but far from silent. It's still audible at night from a
meter away.

One of the computers I use most often is a Sun Ray - basically just a thin
X client to a Sun Unix server. Now that IS silent - no fans at all! If I
was going to build a 'HTPC' it'd be a ray!

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Jim H jh
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