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Hitachi Demos Water-Cooled Notebooks

Posted by timothy on from the hissing-steam dept.

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"

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  1. Coffee by mbstone · · Score: 5, Funny

    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....

    1. Re:Coffee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!

  2. Re:Quiet ?= Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  3. Um...bad idea. by qslack · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    qslack.com
  4. Won't work -- tried it by rjamestaylor · · Score: 4, Funny
    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...

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    -- @rjamestaylor on Ello
  5. Re:Help keep your coffee warm... by VasilyPupkin · · Score: 5, Funny

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