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Another Water-Cooling System For Laptops
big writes "NEC has developed the world's first slim sized water-cooling module for notebooks. It uses a piezoelectric pump driving method. This water cooling-module enables a highly advanced, slim sized, notebook PC with minimal operating noise." Toshiba has been working on water cooling in laptops at least as far back as the year 2000.
I have a 12in powerbook and originally I would have thought something like a water cooling system would be nice, but that would limit my many discovered extended capabilities for my laptop. You see during the winter I use my laptop as the furnace for my apartment building (I live in Montreal, Quebec.. You can imagine it gets pretty cold). It was however becoming a real problem this summer as it got so hot as to melt through to the basement level of my building. My landlord was in the process of drawing up a lawsuit, but then I discovered an alternative to simple water cooling that I think should be considered by enlarge by the geek community.
12in powerbook hydro electric plant! Disregarding the fundamental laws of thermodynamics I have managed to use my 12in heat plant as a tool to turn great amounts of water into steam. Believe it or not, I'm actually powering the entire of Centre-Ville on just my laptop. The city since has graciously agreed to pay my landlord for all damages. Combine that with my cold-fusion dock bookends and I think the energy crisis is over.
But seriously folks... I can't believe how hot laptops and computers are running these days. It really is enough to keep a room warm without a heater. Is water cooling the future or just cooler processors?
-Rob
"Lisa in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!!"
It is bad enough having a laptop burning your lap and now I have to worry about frostbite instead.
Did you wet yourself, or did your laptop spring a leak?
There is water in my desktop! Oh wait, that is my fish tank... There is water in my laptop! Hold on, those are my seamonkeys.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
I'm looking forward to be able to overclock my laptop CPU without damage that way. Imagine the 4GHz pentium... ;-)
Ok, the battery will be burnt in 15 minutes, but there is a price for everything...
Secretary tells help desk, "I just spilled coffee on my boss's keyboard. What should I do?" Help desk pilot fish decides, "What the heck, it's just a $35 keyboard. Have her disconnect it and wash it out in the sink. If that doesn't work, we'll replace it." Next call is from her enraged boss: "Who the hell told my secretary to put my new $4,000 laptop in the sink and run water all over it?"
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If they use heavy water (deuteronium) then you can just flip the laptop upside down and it'll all drain out.
I believe some nuclear fission reactors pump liquid sodium metal as coolant. Not to give notebook mfg's any ideas!
>> Hitachi came out with a watercooled P4 notebook a while back....
So YOU'RE the guy I saw spill a Big Gulp on his Hitachi.
Hey NEC, we said we wanted laptops that are more PORTABLE, not more POTABLE...
I think I'll make a bong out of it!
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Crudely Drawn Games
You know you should stop doing what you're doing when your thighs get wet.
How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's
a known problem... don't worry about it."
I think you're stuck somewhere between deuterium (heavy hydrogen) and deuteronomium (fifth book of the Old Testament) :)
Since at least the mid-1980's my Advanced Projects Reasearch Team has been trying to build computers that will produce espresso coffee. We have managed to build an espresso coffee machine that can compute, but that is not enough. Besides, it gets depressed and decided to make tea instead. Now we can simultaneously cool the mobile computing platform _and_ generate the 100 bars of pressurized steam required to produce a foamy, rich espresso.
I just hope HP and Lexmark do not sell the coffee capsules, or they will end up costing more than luxury champagne.
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