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From: korn@apple.UUCP (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II Fan Noise
Message-ID: <6451@apple.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 02:20:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.6451
Posted: Sat Oct 10 02:20:17 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 05:40:00 EDT
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Reply-To: korn@apple.UUCP (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <2082@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah) writes:
>>  [several people complain about MacII fan noise]
>   Personally I agree with Craig, the fan is much too loud. Seems to me
>that the fan is designed with a fully loaded Mac II in mind. Those are pretty
>rare these days. I would have prefered a temperature controlled fan instead.
>With only a card or two, the fan could be MUCH quieter most of the time.

I believe that the MacII fan *is* temperature controled.  I was looking
into replacing my fan with a quieter one (one of the few areas where an
Amiga clearly outperforms a MacII is in fan noise--the perfect reason to
purchase one of those beasties... :-), and was talking to a hardware friend
of mine who took a look at the board and said "geeze, that's a variable 
speed fan--just like those wierd Apple disk drives; ain't gonna be easy
to replace that".  

This was some months ago, before I decided to jump a step up from retail.
Perhaps someone here at Apple can provide more firm information though...
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