Intel Develops Tech for ''Pillow Proof'' Laptops

[JMcEntegart]

One of the best things about laptops is that they allow you to work from pretty much anywhere. Unfortunately, as anyone working from the couch or their bed will know, using a pillow as a makeshift desk can mean things get pretty warm pretty quickly.

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[The_Prophecy]

Aww.... they had to go and pic my interest...

 

[nebun]

do you really think that they are going to let this info out? AMD and nVidia would be all over it.

 

[husker]

Well, there is only possibility and that is the heat has to be dissipated out the top of the laptop, rather than the traditional ways of blowing air out the back, sides, or bottom. There ya go mystery solved and I'm not even an engineer.

 

[bobusboy]

10*C are you kidding me! my laptop jumps up from 70*C to 100*C on a pillow.

 

[terror112]

This isn't news to me, my Asus 1201N ultra-portable doesn't suffer increases in temperature when on a non-ideal surface, because the engineers were smart enough to put the air intake vents at the front of the ultra-portable in a addition to the bottom. And yes, with nvidia graphics and dual core atom, a fan is necessary. All they have to do is implement the same Seashell design on all laptops and I guarantee the pillow problems will go away.

 

[lpedraja2002]

what terror described is actually the best way to prevent the overheating from the pillows.

Now, knowing intel they probably have specialized software drives for a function for you to enable or disable whenever you put your laptop on a pillow and the function probably includes underclocking the cpu :O

 

[Guest]

terror112, we don't own the same 1201N, I can only recall one exhausting fan on the left side which even when on a desk is blowing death hot air (very hot). The only way to get over this problem as husker said is to put the intake and exhaust air conducts on the screen lid (at the really top of it once opened) no big mistery

 

[Chipi]

HP already did this with their ProBook line. The air is sucked in from the top, through spaces between the keys.

 

[terror112]

The problem I see with having vents through the top is all the small particles that could easily get inside there, as well as if you spill something... even a little spill, it could potentially damage the computer, where if the vents where somewhere else, there could be less damage. And where the intakes are is almost irrelevant as long as the intake is not on the bottom, where said pillow will be blocking it. And why was I marked down? I believe that was a legitimate point.

 

[mman74]

Were this Apple, would they suggest that we were sleeping on the wrong kind of pillow covers and bed-sheets? May be plastic ones don't block the air vents so much?

 

[Guest]

They should design these things using wide plastic vents shielded by a net that captures dust particles and so on under another plastic cover. Or use filter chambers somehow, like the vacuum cleaners work.

 

[jnwpse]

I couldve sworn the unibody macbooks were pillowproof. Doesnt any laptop without fans on the bottom count as pillow proof? Fill me in.

 

[TheWhiteRose000]

well you figure heat travels upwards.
And even though the CPU temp is really hot, once it travels into cooler air,.

It would cool down.
So did Intel just make a Keyboard warmer?

Personally I really don't like Intel Laptops.
Laptop's they have made not the processor.

I got a HEL80/81

And I can't find any freaking support for it at all.

 

[bachok83]

"Sounds great, Intel. Now spill the beans on how your technology works!"

The beans are going to patent office first

 

[icano69]

air being pushed in from the keyboard and being pushed out to the lateral sides....
as simple as that.
zzzzz.

 

[teknomedic]

When the fans detect they are slowing down due to increased resistance... then the CPU/GPU simply underclock from stock to 100Mhz, lol. 😉

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Damnit Intel, I want to see it. Stop being so greedy.

 

[Stifle]

Never seen a laptop that didn't take in air from the bottom and blow it out the side or back. I bet they added a couple snorkles, problem solved.

 

[vsgm]

this sounds great but my HP laptop doesn't heat more when it's kept on a Pillow.

 

[bv90andy]

32nm CPU and IGP?

 

[Guest]

bobusboy, if your laptop hits 70c, you should worry, and get a cooler.

90c is killing heat, won't be tolerated long before the system either shuts down or dies.

All of mine, including two netbooks and a gateway 7811fx, stay below 65c, even when I game on the 7811 it never goes over 70c. I have a good cooler, and I never use the thing without it for very long. The netbooks stay around 45 or 50c. My desktop stays around the same, even with boinc running to keep all the CPUs at 95%.

 

[MU_Engineer]

[citation][nom]husker[/nom]Well, there is only possibility and that is the heat has to be dissipated out the top of the laptop, rather than the traditional ways of blowing air out the back, sides, or bottom. There ya go mystery solved and I'm not even an engineer.[/citation]

Or perhaps there is an airflow sensor in the computer. A pillow obscures the air intake, less air flows by the airflow sensor than the computer would expect for that fan speed, and the CPU throttles itself a little. Voila, the computer runs at the same temperature as it does when the air intake isn't blocked by a pillow.

 

[bildo123]

Not place the intake/exhaust on the bottom of the laptop?

 

[TripGun]

Perhaps it is as simple as a pop-down bottom plate that has the same effectiveness as setting your laptop on a book.