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"IT'S WHISPER-QUIET!!" (1/29/03)
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Hold the phone-- maybe these new Power Macs aren't just minor updates after all. We did a little digging around just to see whether we missed anything significant, and apparently we did, boy howdy. MacCentral's coverage of the hardware release notes something that seems to have escaped a mention in Apple's press release: the new systems may look like the previous models, but they sure as heck don't sound like them.
In case you haven't heard one before (which means you've never been within a forty-foot radius of one while it's running), the previous Power Macs were loud. And we mean loud. We've got a Quicksilver G4, and we thought it was loud (it is; its dull roar is actually distracting when we're watching TV in the next room, which has often caused us to miss a subtle nuance of DeVol's music on "The Brady Bunch"), but when we heard one of its successors-- appropriately dubbed the "G4 Windtunnel" by the public-- we found that our compound was actually blessed by relative Power Mac silence. Who knew?
But here's the thing: the new Power Macs, while they may just look like Windtunnels with some faster gear tossed onto the motherboard, are reportedly a whole mess quieter than their predecessors. The noise problem "has been fixed," says Apple; quoth the company's director of Power Mac Product Marketing, "when the systems get out in the marketplace, I'm sure our customers are going to be delighted at how quiet these systems are."
Yowza! We can now officially withdraw our suggestion that Apple ship every Power Mac with a pair of industrial-strength earplugs. Actually, maybe we'll hold off until we actually get to hear one of these things with our own ears; the very fact that Apple even let the Windtunnels out the door in the first place implies that the guy doing the final quality inspection must have gone to one too many Sabbath concerts in his youth.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/29/03 episode: January 29, 2003: New Power Macs? Awwww yeah. Meanwhile, Apple claims to have fixed that pesky little noise problem that's plagued its pro desktop customers, and displays have suddenly gotten cheap, cheap, cheap...
Other scenes from that episode: 3904: Nice... But Maybe Only Nice (1/29/03) Just where the hairy heck have we been, you ask? Well, since there are only two people still bothering to tune in (Hi, Mom! Hi, Dad!), we're not going to be particularly fastidious about the details, but suffice it to say that 2003 is barely 1/12th over and it's already going down as one of the ickier years in recent personal memory... 3906: Buy Two; They're Cheap (1/29/03) Meanwhile, the lofty Cinema Display is shrinking; when it debuted way back in August of '99, its screen measured a meaty twenty-two inches from corner to corner, but as of yesterday, it's measuring in at a slightly less Rubenesque twenty inches...
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