Quiet PCs are tiny miracles, but boy do they spoil you. My Powerbook, for instance, is ostensibly a ‘quiet’ machine, designed to run with mostly passive cooling, but it actually kicks on its fan a lot. If it were a normal laptop, you probably wouldn’t notice, but having it work as designed sometimes just makes it more frustrating when it doesn’t. And my girlfriend’s PC echoes off the concrete walls of our apartment so loudly that it almost drowns out the soothing refrains of Brooklyn’s sirens and gurgling Polish hookers—not a recipe for sound sleep.
It’s too bad this Hush E2-MCE Media Center PC on Trusted Reviews is so expensive (almost $3,400), then. It looks like a fine bit of movie playing hardware—all the cooling is passive, so there are no fans—but I could build two or three water-cooled gaming PCs for the same amount of money. On the other hand, they wouldn’t fit into a standard 19-inch rack (unless I put them on shelves, as I have been known to do when bosses wouldn’t shell out the cash for rackmounts).
Hush E2-MCE – Silent Media Center PC [TrustedReviews]
