less isolation depends on the shape of your ears and your head; this reviewer found the passive noise isolation as good as that of theQC2s but other listeners disagreed. The active noise cancellation is just as good as the most recent generation of QC2s; if...

headphones featuring an 82 dB output limit. But these hogs weigh almost 20 ounces and cost about $90. Forget that. You can make a pair of NNR 23 dB passive noise canceling analog/digital-compatible headphones for a fraction of the price. All we are going to...

memory and despite its passive cooler, was reportedly powerful enough to run a few higher-end PC games. All that and blissful silence too? Perfect! The Asus Radeon X550GE PCI-E Video card Video card fans can make a lot of noise. A passive cooler is the only...

PCs are equipped with mainly standard PC hardware, but the user should take care that the fans used make as little sound as possible. After all, you want to enjoy the audio and video, not fan noise. A passive cooling system that manages without fans would be...

Application Benchmarks. business notebook with centrino mobile technology. A new business notebook from Asus, the M2N with Centrino technology, uses a passive cooling method without any annoying fan noise. Our field test clears up once and for all whether passive...

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can also use Surveyor's Retract function to erase the most recent path. Surveyor lets you perform two survey types. A "passive" survey gathers signal, noise channel and SSID data from all in-range APs - much like AirMagnet's Laptop and Handheld products. You...

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Noise. compaq nc8230. HP claims that its new widescreen notebook can last an entire working day thanks to its additional battery. While almost the case, this model has plenty of other attractive features, but screen brightness isn't one of them.. Even the...

Noise: Is That A Fan I Hear?. averatec lightweight laptop. Until now, the rule of thumb with laptops was simple: the smaller and lighter the laptop, the more expensive it was. However, things are about to change, if Averatec has anything to say about it. With...