[blattimwind]

> Until the Mac Pro I hadn't considered that a modern, high power computer could also be dead silent.

You've never seen the rig of a competent PC modder before that? "Dead silent computers" were pretty much invented by those people.

Apropos, here these old Powermacs still fetch a nice price, because their cases are valued by modders for ATX conversions.

[yolobey]

No, as I said I didn't imagine it possible from what I was used to, so I never spent the effort to look it up. I thought the difference would be between loud and very loud.