Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr...
by greggman on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:49AM
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I'd expect it to be audio-ish. I can hear my Macbook Pro compute. AFAIK there's no moving parts except the fan but certain programs I can audibly hear something going on inside the machine. It's kind of annoying as I wish it was silent. Note I'm not saying I have any special ability. I'm sure if I had a sensitive mic I could amplify the sounds.
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Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr...
by mkesper on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:35AM
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This could simply be some capacitor or fan issues.
Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr...
by yourad_io on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:06AM
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Former Dell XPS 13 Sputnik (9333 model) user checking in.
A decent dev machine for $2K-ish, save for a major flaw: "coil whine"[1]. Very annoying when working in silent environments. Frustratingly random as well - for me, backlight on/off, usb connect/disconnect and scrolling on browsers would change the whine frequency noticably. [2]
It is possible that you can hear something similar from your MBP - however it is very unlikely that this has anything to do with any of the radios.
I miss the good old days when you knew your PC was busy by the HD sounding like a thousand monkeys tap-dancing shakespear.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_noise
[2] BTW, Dell denies this issue, claiming it was fixed before 9333. Users disagree: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/47g46m/lets_investiga...