PowerBook G5 with Liquid Cooling?

Well, I'm not sure if it's good or bad news, but the Powerbooks are going to have to get a bit thicker eventually, or they won't be expandable enough.

I'd rather have it thicker and cooler/quieter, then thin and hot/noisy (PB 550/667's loud fans come to mind).

I've heard some interesting ideas for G5 PowerBooks, but the more I hear, the happier I am for having just buying a G4 now since any of these extreme tech ideas would be a real pain in the ass to deal with as a Rev. A model with almost guaranteed problems with so much new technology. If I were to have waiting for a second rev PowerBook G5, I'd be waiting for a good year or two.

Not necessarily. You can add quite a few PCI ports to a Powerbook now:

http://www.magma.com/ has an incredible solution to add a PCI chasis to a Powerbook.

now if we could only use the hydrogen from water as power
that would very "cool"ing

I can't imagine how this could be done. But then again, I am not an Apple engineer. Is it as "simple" as it sounds? Just using a liquid to physically cool the processor, rather than blowing air on it?

Really I would think that they should focus on creating less heat from the cpu. Fancy cooling devices only *move* the heat from the cpu to somewhere else. That's fine in a desktop where blowing the heat out into the room is acceptable. In a laptop it's totally different. That heat has to go somewhere, hence the modern lap warmer that happens to do computing as well! Monkeying with water cooling, in my opinion, is a waste of time and money for laptops.

I wonder if they'd use water or something that is more cooling like freon, then again I'd much rather have a powerbook leak water on me than freon.

mmm... so now PowerBooks will be like cars, they need fuel (cells) to run, and change the coolant so it dont get too hot... so whats next? oil change?:rolleyes:

ahh i cant wait....:D

this seems like it would likely increase the weight of the laptop too. (L)uugh.