Hitachi Demos Water-Cooled Notebooks

Sprocket writes: "Water-cooled processors, currently the domain of supercomputers, high-end servers, and garage hobbyists, may be about to enter the mainstream. Hitachi has developed a prototype notebook PC that uses a water-based solution to cool down its Pentium 4 processor and is planning to commercialize the product for corporate users in the third quarter of this year... read more"

Comments

a funny joke

[flynt]

Usually I'm worried about spilling water on my laptop. Now I have to worry about spilling water OUT of my laptop!

Re:a funny joke

[(void*)]

What and make my processor overheat? No way!

Boring.

[NiftyNews]

Water-cooled? That's boring.

Now what I want is an Ice-Cream-Cooled Laptop. Like an electronic Klondike bar. Mmmm...

Coffee

[mbstone]

According to the specs, the unit will produce 0.3 oz of 140 degree-F. water per minute. Therefore, it should only take 15 minutes to brew one Standard 5 Oz. Cup of coffee. Now, if they can only get the CD-ROM drive to double as a cupholder....

Re:Coffee

[Anonymous Coward]

Therefore, it should only take 15 minutes to brew one Standard 5 Oz. Cup of coffee.

Don't forget that you need to start brewing a new cup every 15 minutes to maintain the heat flow. If you drink one cup of coffee every 15 minutes for the whole work day, you'll be overclocked too!

Re:Coffee

[Mayor McPenisman]

You have taken a potentially funny remark and somehow ruined it be badly phrasing it. I suggest you take a regular rhetoric class at a local college, or barring that, as much drain cleaner as possible.

Re:Quiet ?= Good

[Anonymous Coward]

"Man it sure was alot less lonely when we had those fans going."

Record your current fan noise, so you can play it back on the internal speaker of your future computer if it's too quiet.

Um...bad idea.

[qslack]

No, really, I didn't wet my pants!! My laptop leaked!

Re:No Athlon 4 version?

[JayAndSilentBob]

An Athlon 4 with water-cooling would just produce steam.

A notebook computer that MAKES COFFEE TOO?

[Seth Finkelstein]

They don't realize what htey have here! A combination notebook computer AND and a coffee-maker! This could capture the market all-night, err, I mean overnight :-)

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

Won't work -- tried it

[rjamestaylor]

After reading the Slashdot story I tried water-cooling my Toshiba Satellite. I'm sorry to say but Hitachi has obviously not tried this in the real world, 'cause if they did...well, let's just say that I'm using my wife's desktop to write this post.

Wow. Talk about Vaporware...yikes...

Supercomputers??

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought that for atleast the last 10 years that supercomputers (well, crays atleast) have been using flurinert, and I don't think that they ever used water for the job.

hmm, embarassing situations ?

[UU7]

Walking off a long flight.
No, honestly, my laptop just leaked...

Re:Help keep your coffee warm...

[VasilyPupkin]

Not sure about Pizza on P4, but try an egg on AthlonXP :-)

Leaks...

[TheConfusedOne]

Two obvious ones:

1) And you thought MEMORY leaks killed programs...

and

2) Going into that super important customer meeting after the water coolant just let go leaving a huge wet spot on the front of your pants: "No, really, it was my laptop!"

yikes

[gleam_mn]

And I thought it was bad when the water pump died on my car!