Notebook Cooling Strategies

An Anonymous Coward writes "As components shrink, heat control becomes critical. Hitachi will sell water-pump cooling for notebooks while Sony has fancy, twin-fan ductwork in its new Vaio laptops. Meanwhile, a ceramics company that's testing a coating that's highly efficient in radiating heat away from processors and race car engines." We mentioned the water-cooled notebooks earlier.

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My notebook

[stoolpigeon]

tends to cook my legs very well now. If it were able to conduct heat any more efficiently I believe it would become too painful to use. On the other hand that kind of thing could lead to a lawsuit that would get me out of the daily grind and into the life of luxury I deserve.

Ceramics are cool - I love ceramic knives but they are so easy to break.

Water cooled laptops would make for 'funny' commercials with guys crawling over sand dunes gasping "water!, water!" and then pouring it into their computers. I could be a marketing genius.

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Re:sony

[Anonymous Coward]

i always wondered what that noise was when i saw planes flying overhead. YOUR DAMNED VAIO!! :-P

So that's what's causing it.

[tchdab1]

Ban laptops in Antarctica. http://www.boston.com/news/daily/09/iceberg.htm

There's hell to pay.

Innovative Uses

[ghoul]

Now that we have a portable water heater free with our laptops maybe we could put it to good use

1) We use it as a coffee maker. Just add a USB (Ultra Strong Beans) port and let the laptop do its stuff

2)Power generation. Use the heat to make steam . use the steam to turn the mini turbines which can replace the fans and use the power generated to recharge your laptop.

3) Fight against terrorism. Add a nozzle for squirting super hot water. Any terrorist trying to take over a plane would face 20 streams of boiling hot water in his face.

Any other suggestions?

Waterbooks

[InsaneCreator]

Hitachi will sell water-pump cooling for notebooks

Imagine you're using a notebook with water cooling in a public place and it somehow starts leaking. You suddenly have hot water running all over you and when you stand up you somehow have to explain how that big wet spot got on your pants in the first place...

Net energy profit?

[IntelliTubbie]

What I'm wondering is why no one has attempted to regenerate that heat back into usable energy. Sure, there will be significant losses, but if you end up with a net energy profit, it is probably worth it.

Net energy profit? Young lady, in this house we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!!!

Cheers,
IT

Simple solution

[Beliskner]

Simple solution - wearable computing. Attach the heatsink to the user's ass. That way when the user runs a CPU-intensive task it will *HURT*, encouraging him to buy a CPU that runs cooler like a Transmeta. Pentium owners and AMD overclockers will get permanent scars. This way we'll get more efficient software when these important Manager people start complaining.

Bill Gates buys Itanium, then can't sit down for a week. He sells Itanium then optimises and removes bloat from Windows.