That's an excellent idea, thank you. I may put my macbook pro in a second room with a long HDMI cable. Noise has become worse as I've added external hard drives

That's an excellent idea, thank you. I may put my macbook pro in a second room with a long HDMI cable. Noise has become worse as I've added external hard drives. As for the mac pro, they say it's silent, but it's the kind of thing I plan to test in an apple store running some programs like quicktime screen recording on full blast before buying.