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For $415 I'll honeycomb-soundproof a plastic box. Hidden in a cabinet. Handcrafted from exotic wood. In a separate room of the house. With the money I'll have left over, I'll build an addition to relocate the computer, lay cables to my office and still have enough for a down-payment on something shiny.
Innovative, yes. But God Almighty is it an impractical allocation of resources...
Edit: To be fair, I'm sure this product would appeal to hyper-ecosensitive consumers who would prefer this over a design that involved some "power-hungry" thermoelectric cooling arrangement. That's about the nicest thing I can say because I can't justify the price. By the time I reached the end of the article, I thought the product would be *maybe* as high as $200--never the staggering $400+ retail.
To suggest that this would be a good product for use in a sound-sensitive environment, such as a sound studio, is right on. Then again, for the same money, there are equal or better-performing solutions that don't cost as much. And if sound really was a critical issue, the hum of a CD drive, hard drive or other peripherals is going to be an issue as well, so the computer would STILL have to be relocated altogether.
If that were the case, the money that could be spent on this case would be much better appropriated on higher quality sound equipment (or sound insulation) or the cost of a near-silent HTPC, since the difference in ambient noise between the products is sure to render the innovations of this case negligible (the ambient noise of the quietest of rooms is almost assuredly of greater decibel than the perceived sound coming from either product).
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