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More info?)
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:29:36 GMT, "Noel Wester"
<noel.wester@webtribe.net> wrote:
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>"S.Lewis" <stew1960@cover.bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>news:3kppd.43569$jE2.25702@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
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>> "XD" <xavier.durieux@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
>> news:41a61ff6$0$25144$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...
>>>I want to buy a "quiet" computer.
>>> Is the XPS noisy or not ?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
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>> Look at the thread below about the XPS Gen 3 or 4.
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>also bear in mind where you situate the machine.
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>My 8400 sounds like a vacuum cleaner if I sit it on my desktop but if I put
>it on the carpeted floor I have to squint at the on/off light to see if it's
>actually working or not.
>
You are lucky as the devil. I have mine under my desk with the back
board of the desk padded and it still is noisy.