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I briefly had a Lenovo. It was noisy too, and sent it back. Have a Dell now, it's half the volume but still too loud. My old MBP with it's C2D desktop-class ch
by antonyh 6y ago
I briefly had a Lenovo. It was noisy too, and sent it back. Have a Dell now, it's half the volume but still too loud.
My old MBP with it's C2D desktop-class chip was both quieter, and less random with fan speed changes. I hear it less because it's constant.
I think in the modern era, if you want above average performance, it'll be far from silent.
- pdimitar 6y agoDefinitely, not arguing about that. Although my iMac Pro begs to differ -- I hear its fans only if it maxes out all cores for more than 20-30 seconds. Otherwise not at all. But it's an exception (and that machine is quite the marvel of engineering, too, minus the flimsy VESA mounting stuff where it's an absolute catastrophe). I have no qualms with my Win10 gaming PC being slightly audible (I use FractalDesign case with Noctua fans to it's not easy to actually hear it). I have no trouble with a machine spinning its fans here and there. But for my former work Lenovo T490 killed all my desire to work. Sometimes it even started making noise (again for a full minute) after I saved a file in Emacs (so the language server kicked in for 2-3 secs). From here on I'll just be only on desktop machines and will soon buy a Linux desktop workstation plus a MacBook Pro M1 with which I'll only do work outside when I absolutely positively can't do it at home. And use it for remoting to my machines as well, of course.
- uncledave 6y agoI'm using an M1 Mac as a terminal for all my stuff. It's a nice compromise as the things that you want on a desktop are there and work properly. I did however move all my hardware shit into the cloud as it works out fractionally cheaper than running a hefty desktop as and when I need one and things blowing up in it aren't my problem any more.