Quietest apple laptop for browsing while listening

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What is the quietest apple laptop? Will use only for browsing and music downloads, aiff conversion, and transfer to NAS.

Will have on my lap as I am listening to music, so ideally silent. My current Sony vaio is driving me nuts.

Am hoping the larger model MacBook Air as its perfect for my needs.
 

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The quietest Apple Laptops would be any with a solid state drive.
 

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Yes, although I am more worried about fan noise which can get seriously out of control on some laptops. My vaio sounds like a jet engine ready for take off.

I guess I want the coolest most low wattage chipset.

I also read that the latest airs have an asymmetric fan which is quieter
 

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The fan in my MacBook Pro rarely comes on. I can't imagine that a MacBook Air...I'm not even sure an Air has a fan. In any case the fans are very quiet. It's the hard drives - particularly the fast ones, that can make enough noise to be heard over a system playing at any volume to speak of.

Tim
 

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Why do you want to do AIFF conversions on your laptop? It would be slow as heck and heat up the CPU no end. That's why I own a desktop, a laptop, and a tablet :)

The Apple laptops really move along. For many people they have replaced their desktops, plus if you have s good laptop, you have good speed and don't have to do very much syncing except with accessory devices. I know with the cloud does that for you, but I don't trust the cloud's security any more than I can touch a cumulonimbus.
 

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Latest 2012 unibody MBP has 2 fans

 

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Yes I understand they spin at a very low RPM and so are inaudible. They only speed up when required under very heavy processing. I'm sold :).
 

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these are very well designed laptops, a lot of thought went into the airflow/cooling. pricey but you get quality. props to apple
 

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Yes I understand they spin at a very low RPM and so are inaudible. They only speed up when required under very heavy processing. I'm sold :).

That, and the fan blades are at varying pitches, so as to distribute the frequency of the fan noise over a wider range. Impressive engineering, indeed. :)
 

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