Now computers tend to be more and more silent, even servers (have a
look at latest Dell ones) become noiseless. I had a quite peacefull
mini-computer_ (EPIA M9000 + Cubid 2699) during more than one year, but it wasn't really fanless
(1 8mm noisy fan, 2 short-life 8mm case-fans), though quieter than
desktop-computers ... I'm not the only one to complain about that
computer, some people put Zalmann heatsink on the CPU, but personnaly
i wasn't convinced by that option. And it was time to bring a wind of
change out there :-)

So i bought a **real** fanless computer which looks very eye-candy_
no ?

- MV823A motherboard
- VIA C3 1Ghz
- 512 MB RAM
- VIA CLE266 graphic chipset
- S-Video input and output
- Weight about 2 Kilos (passive cooling has a price ?)
- 2''5 20Gb HDD

Of course 20Gb is not enough when one wants to store and play his huge
music library so i put a 3''5 big HDD (tough not as silent as i would)
in a FireWire/USB2 combo box, connected to the brand new
machine. Linux runs fine on it, once patches from EPIAWiki_ are applied on
the kernel.

Well now the only annoying thing with the machine is that i tend to
forget to shut it off since i can't really hear it without putting my
ears on it :) Well yeah, there is a nice blue LED lighted when the
machine is on, it's the only normal-human proof.

.. _mini-computer: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3#2699
.. _eye-candy: http://base-art.net/photos/miniPc/
.. _EPIAWiki: http://www.epiawiki.org/