Chosing cheap desktop: recommendation?

[Terrence Enger]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 07:56 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> I also didn't like the high-pitched noise that came from one of my SFF
> boxes even when the power was off(!).  So the let me swap it for
> another one.  Even though they didn't believe me that it could make
> noise with the power off.  (There was so much noise in their store
> that there was no point in testing there.)

That noise is annoying.  I have two boxes which do that to me.  Why
should it ever happen?

<aside>
When I was (much) younger, I had difficulty convincing my family that I
could *hear* the sweepback transformer in our television.  That was much
worse than these computers, which I can at least unplug when they are
idle.
</aside>

Cheers,
Terry.


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