I got an xbox the day they came out as well, and noise isn't really an issue. Especially when you price point a pc with the capacity of the xbox and noise of the xbox :)
The best thing that could happen to an xbox would be for someone to get it to boot off the network so you could remove the hard drive, do a net boot and put in a quieter fan and also convert to more convection cooling rather than forced air.
I have a 1.1 xbox (just the system fan, no GPU fan) and it's definitely reasonably quiet. I have chipped a few mates 1.1 - 1.6 xboxes and they all seem to be as quiet.
I've currently got another friends 1.0 xbox here and it's very noisy with those two fans.
With regard to the netbooting issue - I would imagine you could probably use the Cromwell bios and boot off a CF disk, using an IDE-CF convertor?
Not forgetting also that using 'hacked' bioses (possibly including Cromwell), the system fan can be throttled to 20% through software (including Linux as well I believe).
I don't know if an unmodified retail xbox runs it at full speed, but if it does then it means peoples idea's of how noisy xboxes are could be flawed.
Will
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