Bad place for a political post. Maybe you should have framed it in a different context like... Are there silent pc's in the White House and if so, do they use really quiet fans, massive heat sinks or some sort of exotic NASA developed ferro fluid? - - or - - If Nixon had computers in the White House...

I have an AspireOne with Windows XP. The Atom processor runs as hot as my HP dual core laptop and the fan comes on frequently. My unit isn't noisy at all but I live in and urban area and the daytime ambient noise level is such that I never hear it. At night I can hear it clearly (it's very small so ...