Its fanless design means no air is drawn in or out of the device, minimizing the spread of airborne pathogens.

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Obviously, any fanless, Atom-powered Windows 8 tablet will be thinner and lighter.

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The HTPC ran nice and quietly, which was a relief seeing as how the case and fanless PSU forced us to make major sacrifices in other areas.

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The Intel Atom Z2760, aka Clover Trail, enables a fanless tablet experience that gets up to 10 hours battery life and is compatible with both Metro touch apps and Windows 7 desktop apps.

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AMD's VP of Consumer Business, Joe Menard, said that these living room PCs "may come out next year" and might even include quiet running, fanless designs if we read into his comments just a bit.

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It's a lot like the Series 7 we checked out, though this guy is of course a smidge thinner and lighter, given the fanless design and inclusion of an Atom-based Clover Trail processor instead of something in the Ivy Bridge family.

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