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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OK, more efficient at cooling than a fan.

[hashish]

But with laptops getting smaller and lighter, who wants a heavier bulkier machine that can run faster. Better off using a desktop if that's the way you want to go.

Laptops - the spoilt kid in computing...

[jkrise]

More attention that warranted seems to be the issue with laptops these days. So long as laptops run Windoze, what's earth-shatteringly different between different models? The true worth of laptops could be about $400 (what HP offered Thailand). Anything much above that is just waste of money.

Rather than cooling, why not work towards standardizatrion on laptops. The power supply for these gizmos range from 8.6V AC to 33.4V DC. Power supply connectors come in all fancy pinouts and crazy designs.

The lesser the laptops, the better it is for the environment. laptops break down more often thsan desktops (13.5 times more often actually) and are often ir-reparable, or too cost prohibitive. It's time there was legislation requiring standards on all laptops - those that didn't conform ought to be banned outright. This is a classic case of capitalism screwing global interests for a few dollars more.