Well, here's another case where folks might want to actually READ the article in question. It mentions that IBM has had watercooling for Thinkpads since "the late 90's". It also mentions a hitachi system with watercooling.
Past that, it is rife with sloppy detail. It refers to the "powerpc G5 processor" twice. We all know there is no G5 processor...apple makes sure to say that G5 refers to the entire system, like Centrino. It also mentions the "intense heat" of the proc. Sorry, the data doesn't support "intense heat" coming from the proc. If they had mentioned the ASIC I'd cut them some slack.
"In January, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories announced that he had created technology to disperse the heat generated within laptop computers more efficiently than the current cooling systems. The new process uses heat from the CPU to convert methanol into a vapor with the aid of a heat pipe "wick" created out of finely etched lines. The vapor then releases the heat it is carrying in a specified area, where it turns back to liquid and returns to collect more heat.
At the time, the technology was being licensed to an upstart company, but no
further information was made available."
Uhh...well, heat pipes are everywhere now. Zalman even has one for GPUs. Maybe the article writer meant that this specific methanol carrying heatpipe was obscure. I've seen pics of the inside of the tibook, and that machine has several heatpipes running all over the place.
Why not try thermo-electric cooling?
http://www.thermaltake.com/products/subzero/subzero4g.htm Now there's a powerburner for you.
