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Hitachi water cooled laptop

16.05.2002

Since autumn of this year, the Japanese company Hitachi intends to start production of water-cooled portable computers.

The greater the power of the microprocessor, the more it heats up during operation. Usually the microprocessor is blown by a separate fan, but still the laptop case gets quite hot during operation.

A water cooling system should be more efficient and less noisy than a fan. According to the company, a thin steel tube 4-1 meters long is designed to remove heat from the Pentium-1,5, wrapping around the processor and filled with a water-based cooling solution. A solution heated to 60 degrees Celsius will be pumped to the back of the computer screen, where the heat will dissipate into the air.

Efficient cooling will increase the reliability and life of your computer. The company does not say whether it will be necessary to change the water in the computer to antifreeze in winter.

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