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Fujitsu Water Cooled Laptop

post #1 of 15
12/15/08 at 4:03pm
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After years of bad jokes about water cooling laptops circulating (no pun intended) on the net, it looks as though Fujitsu is serious about launching one. Introducing the Fujitsu LifeBook N7010. It's about 2 inches thick and is packed with a 15" display, up to a 2.4 GHz C2D intel chip, 320 GB HDD, 4 GB RAM, and a 256 MB ATI Radeon HD 3470. Also is an embedded 4" touchscreen LCD to allow for quick launch of applications.
Another strange bit is this
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Originally Posted by Engadget
Shipping December 26th in Japan.
P.S. The US version is shipping immediately (starting at $1,499) but without a TV tuner (naturally) or water cooling (odd).

Source and more pics available at Engadget
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post #2 of 15
12/15/08 at 4:06pm
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On a more personal note, considering they went to all this trouble to make it water cooled, I'm more than slightly underwhelmed at the specs of this thing. Not to mention the 1 hour battery life they're getting.
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post #3 of 15
12/15/08 at 8:04pm
It would be great to see a diagram as how it is being put together.

Reminding me the Hitachi Flora 270W many years back, which is still available on the net search:
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/h...book-20020719/

and a DIY machine
http://www.instructables.com/id/Wate...-on-the-cheap/

and yes, they need to do something about the battery life. But then, cooling water would take some serious juices; like a desktop.

cheers ...
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post #4 of 15
12/22/08 at 9:25am
pretty cool idea, dano if will catch on tho.
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post #5 of 15
12/23/08 at 3:36pm
I've joked about notebook manufacturers making a liquid-cooled system for a while now, and it appears to be a product 'on the horizon'. Isn't technology wonderful?
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post #6 of 15
1/4/09 at 5:33pm
I'm sure this will actually pan out in some form of usefulness in the future, but I'm with Doug on this one. They're watercooling components that are already quiet on fan operation, and they're not cramming super fast equipment in there that would only be possible with water cooling.

I don't really know what the angle is with this other than a gimmick, but if someone were to use it to cram really fast graphics card and processor into a small or quiet package I'd get that.

Still, it will be interesting to see if someone can do something useful with it.
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post #7 of 15
1/4/09 at 7:14pm
It could be that they want to be sure there will be no problems with the WC tech in the real world. If there are problems, it is cheaper to replace (on warranty) low-end parts.
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post #8 of 15
1/5/09 at 9:30am
I am still weary about cramping "water/liquid of any sorts" and "electronic parts" in such a close environment

cheers ...
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post #9 of 15
1/5/09 at 5:22pm
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I am still leery about cramping "water/liquid of any sorts" and "electronic parts" in such a close environment

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fixed. weary means tired or exhausted. leery means cautious or wary
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post #10 of 15
1/5/09 at 6:48pm
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fixed. weary means tired or exhausted. leery means cautious or wary
you are very kind

cheers ...
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post #11 of 15
1/6/09 at 5:05pm
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and yes, they need to do something about the battery life. But then, cooling water would take some serious juices; like a desktop.

cheers ...
No way the laptop can utilize enough power on battery to require water cooling. Now, you may be right if they abandoned fans and passive cooling in the design.
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post #12 of 15
1/7/09 at 5:39am
They can't passive cool laptops very effectively normally, to have a passive radiator on a water cooling setup I think would still overheat in time, the water will stay cooler for longer, but in the end, with nowhere to go the heat will build up.

I think the power draw you're seeing on that battery isn't to do with fans, we all have fans in our laptops, it's the energy needed to pump water, however little of it there is.

Now if they can use some sort of super collider to form a mini black hole above the heatsink that draws the heat and any surrounding space and time into it, I think that could help cool it.


.... actually I might patent that idea...
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post #13 of 15
1/12/09 at 1:16pm
I don't think you understood what I was saying. I was hinting that the notebook must not have fans or any alternative cooling other than water cooling because those would suffice to cool it on battery. Water-cooling on battery power is a paradox to me.

And as for passive cooling it all depends on how you define it I guess. I'd call a heatsink passive and the optional fan cooling its fins active. Now you could call the whole system active but I don't do that.
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post #14 of 15
1/12/09 at 2:17pm
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I don't think you understood what I was saying. I was hinting that the notebook must not have fans or any alternative cooling other than water cooling because those would suffice to cool it on battery. Water-cooling on battery power is a paradox to me.
Sorry I re-read your post and see what you mean now, I agree.

Still like my idea
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post #15 of 15
3/4/09 at 3:33am
wow, wonder how you repair it if it started leaking...Yikes!
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