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.

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Just use a Mac for a Laptop (1/4th the heat)

[Anonymous Coward]

Forget water cooling.... Just use a Mac for a Laptop (1/4th the heat) for the same workload.

Or even far more than 1/4th when doing benchmarks such as the open source RC5 cypto benchmark in which a Mac with a G4 in a laptop totally crushes intel offerings, not merely from its barrel shifter and not merely from a couple altivec instructions, but overall.

Macs conserve batteries. Some older mac powerbooks allow you to run os 9.2.2 permitting virtual memory to be DISABLED saving more electricity from not needing drives spinning.

Even a commmon 1998 powerbook mac could play an 130 minute dvd on one heavily used older battery, while no intel latptop in 1998 could play a 130 minute dvd without having to swap batteries at least once, I seem to recall.

Most mac powerbooks never need to have their internal emergency fans kick on, even while crunching hard core mathematical benchmarks on warm days.

Re:Truth Serum

[FatPaulie]

These three "selling points" to me just stress how prone to failure this product can be. I read it as follows:

1. The water pressure sucks. 2. The thing is pain to put together 3. And the water will evaporate in a New York minute.

Guess the writer was given some heavy truth serum before he wrote this one up.

Read the article again, and you'll find that the author (this looks very much like it was Babelfished from Japanese source material BTW) makes those 3 statements about conventional cooling systems, not NEC's new laptop cooling system.

The cooling system made by NEC has a small, high-pressure pump, the tank, pump, and CPU attached areas are NOT inter-connected, and no large tank installation is required.