With all due respect, you answered your own question.
"(The thing could be a little quieter though.)"
An external fanless power supply is presumably quieter than your PC. I can't tell from the Creative website whether the SLiX has an internal PSU with fan, but I assume that it does. Less fans = less noise, and the review implies that the fan in the Zen is very quiet.
With all due respect, you answered your own question.
"(The thing could be a little quieter though.)"
An external fanless power supply is presumably quieter than your PC. I can't tell from the Creative website whether the SLiX has an internal PSU with fan, but I assume that it does. Less fans = less noise, and the review implies that the fan in the Zen is very quiet.