Apple Considering Liquid Cooling For MacBooks

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Apple is considering using liquid coolant to keep the temperature down on future MacBooks and other devices.

Liquid cooling is an old favorite of Apple's. If you recall, they tried it out in 2004 on their PowerMac G5s, but the experiment was short lived as the system was prone to damaging leaks. Apple ended up replacing many units out of its own money, effectively claiming full responsibility for a faulty system. But it looks like they're ready to try again. Apple has noted that, as AI puts it, "significant increases in the computational performance of electronic devices of the past few years has made it harder to maintain acceptable internal and external operational temperatures in those devices." They emphasized portable devices as even harder to keep cool. They want to use a system that includes a power source combined with a heat pipe, which may contain a liquid coolant. The talk and the blueprints (click to enlarge) are impressive, but we can only hope that in four years of research Apple has figured out the most important thing - how to make them not break and leak out coolant all over the guts of your computer and your desk. This is all just theory for now, so there's no timetable set yet, but you may be hearing more about this soon. Via appleinsider

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  • By: Nathanial Sep 07, 2009 10:55 PM

    I agree that some things probably could be done differently and to greater effect

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