HP’s fanless Chromebox has a noisy fan inside

Dysons had a few specific problems. One, their cord was undersized for the power it was carrying, and would get warm to the touch, much more so than other brands. I never saw any repairs related to that, but it was indicative of a cheaply-built philosophy that had lots of other problems. Two, their rolling brushes had a simple plastic-on-plastic bearing surface (other vacuums had a plastic-on-metal or bearing-on-plastic), and as the brush accumulated hair and other things, the two plastics would melt into each-other from the friction and it would require a top shell replacement. This was a really common repair on these. Another problem, common to all bagless vacs, was a buildup of dust and grit inside the motor, causing early motor failure.

A well-cared-for Dyson is a decent vacuum, but you're generally better off getting a good Eureka for half the price and abusing the crap out of it. Those things could take a beating.

Second, the "another way to say fanless is thin" seems to be marketing spin to me, like saying one of the benefits of fanless is thinness.

Third, unless someone tuned off the video in 30 seconds, it's clear that it is not really fanless.

Here's the transcript, can anyone come off with the impression that the Pro 3 is fanless? Especially while the fan was shown on the screen to the audience all along?

>I can go through all 100 custom parts it took to do that. I won't. I want to talk about one part. It's probably the most significant of the parts. I'll hold the device so you can continue to get a shot of it. But look at the fan that you see up there. We talk about fanless all the time. Fanless is an interesting concept. That was something people talked about three years ago when they talked about tablets.

>This thing is fanless. Another way to say fanless is "thin." Another way to say fanless is "cool" to the touch. Another way to say fanless is you don't feel the air.

>So what we designed in our product as you know from Surface Pro 2. Take a quick look at Surface Pro 3. Do you see that perimeter vent going around here? That same vent in Surface Pro 2, that same technology invented came into this small package.

>Then we reinvented the fan. We were able to make it 30 percent more efficient than any fan in any product today. Then we reinvented the fin on the fan, and we're able to radially emit air throughout the entire product so you never feel it. You don't hear it. You don't even see it.

Perhaps there is a gray area where ON is synonymous with IN for people who aren't being pedantic, just as fanless is synonymous with cool and quiet for most consumers.