> Do they say fanless in any of the marketing material?
What are we watching? This is the product announcement video, it doesn't get any more marketing than this. I'm calling out that this is a shady tactic to associate the device with fanless devices when it clearly has a fan. In reviews it's even mentioned that the fan in the Surface Pro 3 is louder than in the Surface Pro 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8077/microsoft-surface-pro-3-r... "The big difference is that in situations where you wouldn't hear fans spinning on Surface Pro 2, you'll sometimes hear it on SP3."
The video very clearly states many times that there is a fan, there is even a picture of it on the large screen and it's announced that we're looking at that particular part.
There is a body language and tonal miscue with the "this thing is fanless", but it's quickly over ridden by things like "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"
Take that Pro 3 video clip or transcript to a thousand people who never heard of the Pro 3 or the Chromebox and ask them if they think the Pro 3 is fanless. Next show them the HP Chromebox product page and ask them the same question about it.
Care to estimate how many you think would be wrong about the actual hardware? My numbers are < 5 and > 995 respectively. I really want to know what your estimates are.
What are we watching? This is the product announcement video, it doesn't get any more marketing than this. I'm calling out that this is a shady tactic to associate the device with fanless devices when it clearly has a fan. In reviews it's even mentioned that the fan in the Surface Pro 3 is louder than in the Surface Pro 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8077/microsoft-surface-pro-3-r... "The big difference is that in situations where you wouldn't hear fans spinning on Surface Pro 2, you'll sometimes hear it on SP3."