Chosing cheap desktop: recommendation?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 18 16:59:02 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:55:33AM -0500, Terrence Enger wrote:
> 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>

15750hz is perfectly within hearing range of some people.  It still
annoys me.  I can tell when my wife has the TV on in the basement and I
am on the top floor of the house.  Ah well, some day we might replace it
with a flatscreen and solve that problem.

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