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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. Not just for overclockers anymore by Starship+Trooper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kind of like Honda shipping riced up Civics by default, it's pretty funny that the industry is following the overclockers. To take a look at the roots of water cooling, check out the definitive hobbyist on the subject, complete with alternate designs, plans, technical faq - the works.

    Personally, I'll buy it when it's packaged and done for me, and not until then.

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  2. This already exists. by jonnythan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Water cooled laptops are nothing new at all. Check out these water cooling laptop articles, produced from a quick google search:

    Toshiba

    IBM

    I know there are others, but I can't seem to find them at the moment. It's certainly my underestanding that there have been water cooled laptops in production for quite a while.

  3. Re:Intel: take a Marketing class by tftp · · Score: 4, Informative

    As long as I can regulate the performance (and the battery drain) it's OK. Many notebooks are used mostly as desktops, but the owner has to travel with them occasionally. That's the fate of all notebooks I have at the office. Two of them are travelling right now, but when at customer's site, they will be plugged into AC and demoing our stuff at full speed. Same when I use them at the office. Rarely they are used on airplanes.