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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.