Water Cooled Macs?
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Sounds like something that is too good to be true, understanding the benefits of running a cooler system. Water chilled MacBooks would be a serious boon to the user, assuming it can be done effectively. I think that most people will agree that adding water to anything other than a tower PC is begging for trouble. In short, springing a leak in a notebook is very different than with a tower PC.
Can it work and just as important — does it make sense for Apple to pursue this? If Apple has taught us anything, it is that it is clever with its form factors and hardware work. So if anyone can make water cooling notebooks a reality, it will likely be Apple, I suppose.
Am I nuts in the belief that in the end, this idea, should it come to fruition, would be a huge mistake? Hit the comments; set me straight on this.
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Don
December 4th, 2008
at 9:26am
I think that it would work, as long as there is some type of anti-freeze in the cooling solution (Imagine leaving your laptop in the car overnight in the winter time and having a “pipe burst” - that wouldn’t be pretty).
Tom
December 7th, 2008
at 9:52am
This is nothing new, my old Dell Inspiron 8200 is liquid cooled, with a pipe running between the CPU headsink and the radiator at the back of the computer.