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A Truly Silent Desktop PC

Posted by timothy on from the silence-is-metallic dept.

boris writes "The first in a series of turnkey systems seem to be coming through the fence from Hush Technologies. The systems weigh in a little expensive but look to be incredible quality. This is according to the review over at HEXUS.net who have a heap of photos up of the unit as well as an article. Is this finally the step to having a true PC in every living room? HTPC here we come!" These EPIAs are everywhere now; we mentioned the M-100 the other day; less-expensive ready-built systems (in various configurations) are available from SolarPC, too.

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  1. A bemused admin writes by oPless · · Score: 4, Funny

    I host hexus's webservers
    - now I'm starting to get worried :-)





    www.tetracite.com

    1. Re:A bemused admin writes by kinnell · · Score: 4, Funny
      For next time, this is not the best advice to give when experiencing a slashdotting:

      please try and reload the page

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  2. I guess so, heh by Ryvar · · Score: 3, Funny

    We are having major server problems at the moment. Something is up - we will fix this ;)

  3. already by standsolid · · Score: 4, Funny

    from heux's site

    We are having major server problems at the moment. Something is up - we will fix this ;)

    yup. it's called a damn good slashdotting buddy. you better have some fire extinguishers ready to fix your "server problems" ;P

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  4. I was expecting to see a behemoth, but ... by ascii · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... Jaheseus Christ that looks good.

    Most often you don't get good-looking !and! silent at the same time.

    Schweeet!

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    1. Re:I was expecting to see a behemoth, but ... by InsaneCreator · · Score: 4, Funny

      Most often you don't get good-looking !and! silent at the same time.

      same goes for women... ;)

  5. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Afrosheen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually it'd be something like...

    In Soviet Russia...the PC silences YOU

  6. Re:/. effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Found one

  7. I'm buying this computer.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    cuz someday when I have sex, I want to be able to hear it too.

  8. Slashdoted by outofpaper · · Score: 2, Funny

    &:12 Am less than a hundrud coments and the site is slashed. We shoud use a distributed file systum for the web somthinc like freenet but faster. Sinsce at the moment freenet makes it seam as though its 8 years ago and I have a 14.4

  9. dead hexus by Oakey · · Score: 3, Funny

    For those that like numbers, the Hexus server is a dual xeon with a few Gb RAM and SCSI disks. Or at least it was, you heartless people have killed it. Dave won't be happy.

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  10. Re:Hard Disk Noise by reezle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm... If you say so.

    How about you get rid of that noisy power supply fan, and THEN tell me how quiet your hard drive is?
    {GRIN}

    That's where I'm at now... got rid of all the fans, and now am down to the minor noises. But when you are being passionate, etc, after watching a movie, you sure don't want a spinning-up HD to make her sit up and say, "what's that strange noise?"... Because then you'll get distracted from the main event, and start babbling at her about thermal recalibration, spin-down, suspend-mode, etc etc... Very quickly she'll realise you are NOT a dentist/lawyer/doctor like you said, but in fact one of those programmers you swore to her that you were not, and then lord knows you'd have to be pretty damn lucky if you ever get back the t-shirt of yours she was wearing as she bolts for the door...