Want to work on the "Mother of All Thermal Challenges?"

[jtgotsjets]

iCould. You take one of them liquid nitrogen things and you install it, and then you could use a really big fan...

Oh. Wait. We aren't talking about a PeeeCeee laptop here....

Does anyone remember the first gigahertz PC? IT was just a 800(?)Mhz PC with an actual refrigeration unit on the bottom to keep it stable when overclocked to 1000Mhz.

 

[maya]

Does anyone remember the first gigahertz PC? IT was just a 800(?)Mhz PC with an actual refrigeration unit on the bottom to keep it stable when overclocked to 1000Mhz.

Apple is getting the short end of the stick on this ordeal, IBM should have made changes in the low levels instead of having Apple place patch work solutions later on.

This seems ignorant on both parties.

If IBM started to develop a mobile chip about 3-6 months after the desktop version was part down the road these problems would have been fixed quite early down the road. Not sure what both parties were doing, thumbing around the office. Just whole G5 issues for desktop and notebook seems sloppy. How long has IBM been in R&D technology and then this. Get real IBM was working on the "Cell" chip as well during those years.


I don't even care for a G5 notebook anymore, maybe a "Cell" notebook would be even better.

 

[Timelessblur]

Actually the specific heat of antifreeze is less than water...antifreeze is used for corrosion inhibition and (obviously) antifreeze.

well it more for antifreeze props then corrosoin. Antifreeze it self is extermly corrosion.

We put it in our car to raise the boiling point and then lower the freezing point of the water. (it going either way is really bad) the put a few other aditives in there to protect the car from the corrution it self.

As of blaming IBM I wouldnt because everything in computers have been getting hotter. The heat sinks on AMD, Intel, and PowerPC chips have been becoming better at moving heat and getting read of it but they are still putting out more and more heat. The AMD64 and P4 all have heat spreaders on the CPU them selfs to help them transfer heat to the heat sink better.

I would not be surpised to see in the future a lot more computers going water cooled. I would not be suprised to see laptops starting become stock water cooled

 

[number9]

An ME is perfect for this job. I'm a sophomore majoring in ME and I can tell you that by the time I graduate in a little over 2 years, I'll have more than enough background in heat transfer to deal with a job like this. As it is, we have do deal with mechanics of materials and material science, which basically has us memorize the properties of materials, which are always important when it comes to designing things like computers, or anything for that fact. But within the next year I will be taking two Thermodynamics classes and a Heat transfer class. In reality from everything I've ever heard, ME is usually the most diverse discipline within engineering, and ME's do a lot of different things. I applied for a internship with Sandia National Laboratories, and from the interview, there are a lot of different fields I could go into.

 

[Timelessblur]

An ME is perfect for this job. I'm a sophomore majoring in ME and I can tell you that by the time I graduate in a little over 2 years, I'll have more than enough background in heat transfer to deal with a job like this. As it is, we have do deal with mechanics of materials and material science, which basically has us memorize the properties of materials, which are always important when it comes to designing things like computers, or anything for that fact. But within the next year I will be taking two Thermodynamics classes and a Heat transfer class. In reality from everything I've ever heard, ME is usually the most diverse discipline within engineering, and ME's do a lot of different things. I applied for a internship with Sandia National Laboratories, and from the interview, there are a lot of different fields I could go into.

It not surpising that an ME can do this job but it just seems that not something they would speliezed in as much to me. I have ME friends who are pretty far along into there program (one doing there sr design project) as for memorizting those proputery of tables what the heck are you smoking that is like 100s of pages of stuff. You will learn really quickly in engineer memerizing all the forumals is just almost impossible to do there just are 2 many of them. Knowing how to idetify them and use them is much more imporanted. I have learned they are not so much teaching use about how to do it but more how to think and teaching the infomation is the 2nd goal.

I am studing to be a Civil Engineer and a lot of stuff CE do over laps with ME just how they are geared is diffent. I used to have to take thermal but it was drop last semster from our degree plan. I am still thinking about taking it pass fail for fun because I want to learn some stuff about it.

You are right about how ME is most deverisvifed field of engineering and they can do just about anything and they work in almost every feild. Well every field but where the CE work which I find is kind of strange. it either they are hiring ME, EE other engineers or they are higher CE or CTEC. Well CE is consider the mother of all engineering

 

[AmigoMac]

Dual core, Dual Processor G5 powerbooks by wwdc 05, anyone?



Take it easy, the main problem is 1" thickness, they may go to 1.2" I can see that move, give it late but give it good.