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[Teddy]

I like the Compaq ENS SFF boxes..PIII max of 1Ghz, 1GB SDRAM
Or the HP d530U on College Street $60 per..Celeron 2.4Ghz SFF no legacy

Computatation.to at Jane and Bloor subway or Reboot Canada

/teddy


Terrence Enger wrote:
> 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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