Dell Laptop Uses Intel's New Cooling Design

[rmse17]

It's dumb to have intake and exhaust on the same side. Learn from rack mounted servers.. it's best to have intake on front, exit on back.

 

[theshonen8899]

For less than half the price of a mac...

 

[shin0bi272]

wow cause every pc enthusiast hasnt been doing this on their desktops for about a decade and a half!

 

[Guest]

Fans blow hot air out, in turn sucking cold air in.... new stuff here... not so much.

 

[lolsir]

Amazing achivement by intel

:sarachasim:

 

[damianrobertjones]

Pictures? Tear down of the machine?

 

[vectorm12]

[citation][nom]jimmysmitty[/nom]Having taken apart pretty much every brand of laptop and many models I can say this is new, to the laptop market. The original idea was to use a fan to pull the hot air off the components and push it outside.Most laptops would use a single, flat heatpipe that would cover the critical components, normall the CPU but sometimes the CPU and the GPU. Then a fan would pull the heat off of the end of the heatpipe and out the side or back.This instead uses an idea that desktop PCs has used for a long time. Pull in cool air, push it over the components then out the back again. Enthusiast PCs normally pull air in the front and side and then up and out the back and top. It creates air flow which laptops have lacked.I hope this idea sticks though. Laptops parts die faster due to heat, especially HDDs. Intel always tries to find a better way to cool, such as with BTX where the CPU sits in front of the PC where the air is cooler. Unfortunatley BTX didn't pass so it was only used by the OEMs in a small number of models for a short while.[/citation]

Actually BTX had a few significant shortcomings as well. In particular placing the northbridge+southbridge right behind the CPU which ment they where cooled by already significantly heated air, not to mention minimal to no cooling for RAM without aftermarket cooling.

BTX was in the end an even worse alternative than ATX, most likely one of the big reasons it never saw widespread use.

 

[molo9000]

Like the design and the price, but reviews don't sound good.
Battery life is way too short. (3hours)
What's the point of making an ultra portable with no battery life?

 

[hardware specialists]

Sounds great for a laptop . Didn't work for desktops . Btx form factor = fail . When they shrink cpus to less then 22nm it won't matter as much how they cool it

 

[tipoo]

[citation][nom]hardware specialists[/nom]Sounds great for a laptop . Didn't work for desktops . [/citation]


Desktops have had this technology for years and years, its called an intake fan. Doiii.

 

[kato128]

This is news? I feel like I've stepped back into 1994.

I've worked as a dell tech and can tell you that most of their laptops work like this and have done so for a looooooonnnnngggg time. Prob usually is the intake sucks in from the bottom and exhausts out the back and that causes airflow probs when ur on a soft surface (eg blanket, couch, etc).

 

[kelemvor4]

I call shenanigans!

 

[squallypie]

they just added something to the laptop that pc builder would call "front fan"

 

[CTPAHHIK]

This is really great, but can it run Crys... err, 8 hours on 30WHr battery?

 

[mattclary]

[citation][nom]Dizzy21[/nom]So props to Tom's for reporting on important industry revelations, but boo on Intel (and Dell on principle) for drumming this idea up with marketing and charging more for fans that have been reversed. Seriously, someone flipped a switch on a robot and now they charge more for the computer. Congratulations you marketing maniacs.[/citation]

Dude, they sell for $429, if anything, that is actually pretty cheap for a pretty nice laptop.

 

[dedhorse]

[citation][nom]guardianangel42[/nom]Don't get too excited. If I read that right, both ports are at the back. Can you say recycled hot air? I can, cuz, I totally just did.Honestly, do these guys really know nothing about air cooling? I have literally NEVER taken a physics class and I know that you can't cool a hot component with hot air.Seriously Dell, this is just pathetic.[/citation]

You seriously think the engineers at Intel and Dell simply thought, "hmm, stick another fan on the back. Done!"?

What I'm saying is, on desktops, the cases are a lot bigger which mean the fans can be bigger, you have to option of having a fan at the front and one at the back and you don't have to worry too much about how the air flows.

On a laptop, the space inside is a lot smaller so you need to actively test and simulate the air flow within such a tight space to prevent that recycled air problem you suggested. Believe me, I'm sure their engineers are a lot more qualified to calculate the exact size, speed and positioning of the fans to optimize the air flow in such a tight space.

Otherwise, any shmuck could stick an extra fan in their laptop as all the geniuses commenting about "ooh, I've done this on my desktop for years" seem to suggest and come up with the same result.

 

[phate]

Why can I not get a decent processor and 4gb of RAM with Ubuntu. The only sell Ubuntu on the base model?
I really don't understand that at all, it's not as if a faster processor or more will effect the OS...

Oh well, I guess us second-class citizens(Linux users) should be happy they sell A laptop with Ubuntu at all.

 

[eddieroolz]

A nice idea, actually...I just wish the keyboard and palmrest is kept at a low temperature. The current HP laptop I'm using has an uncomfortably warm palmrest.

 

[hardware specialists]

Intake fan i know . Btx did it like that but when cpus shrunk to 45nm they went back to atx dooiiii

 

[kato128]

[citation][nom]Phate[/nom]Why can I not get a decent processor and 4gb of RAM with Ubuntu. The only sell Ubuntu on the base model? I really don't understand that at all, it's not as if a faster processor or more will effect the OS...Oh well, I guess us second-class citizens(Linux users) should be happy they sell A laptop with Ubuntu at all.[/citation]

Dude Ubuntu is FREE! Buy the higher model, download ubuntu and reinstall like everyone else does. Also means u don't have to suffer the crappy additional software they pack on it.

 

[WyomingKnott]

"Hyperbaric?" It enhances the oxygen level as well as producing high pressure? Does oxygen cool better than nitrogen, like (as?) copper cools better than aluminum?

 

[Guest]

Fans are only for those who believe in airflow, which I do not. A better solution is to just spray some liquid freon into the side-slot of the laptop whenever it overheats, which is totally silent except for when you're shaking up the can or holding down on the plunger. Winner!