Juha doesn’t think that the new Powerbook G4 is all that noisy. I was in my local Apple store a few weeks ago and looked at the Powermac G4 desktops. Man, they’re hurricanes compared to the older blue & white G3’s and Quicksilver and below G4’s that I’ve been used to. It’s still a lot quieter than my main desktop machine (a 3dcool Tornado 1000 case with 4 fans), but it struck me as an ugly kind of unmaclike noisy.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d still buy one in an instant if I had the funds.