If like most people, when you wake in the morning, your hearing is very sensitive. This assuming a relatively quiet environment over the course of your sleep. The threshold at which you will notice changes is of course lower. Some people like to have a fan going while sleeping to drown out other noises. A fan is a source of white noise similarly found in waterfalls. I strangely believe that any source of noise, is a distraction.
A CPU fan and a noisy hard drive have been bothering me for some time. I thought silent PCs would have been common place since 2003 where flash memory has been common. However the race for more power and storage capacity have delayed the development of lower power processors and solid state disks (SSD). So what does one need to have a truly quiet experience?
At the moment, it may just be money! Some tablet PCs have very good keyboard responses, adequate storage and processor that will not required forced air cooling.
In the end I would say that having constant noise to reduce noise sensitivity is not a good idea. A horrible one really. Reading in silence is like writing in silence. In both cases silence makes it far easier to concentrate.
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