Intel Develops Tech for ''Pillow Proof'' Laptops

[JonnyDough]

It seems to make natural sense that heat transferred to the monitor panel with some sort of insulating barrier would be ideal for heat dissipation.

 

[hotlazydaze]

I have a Dell XPS M1530 and the thing runs like a furnace on my desk. If I try and watch a movie with it on the bed it gets so damn hot that you can't touch it and then usually overheats and turns itself off within 30 minutes. It doesn't take a genius to work out why this happens when you look at where the air intake is and where it pushes it out. Surely you should be able to place a laptop on your lap without the risk of burning yourself???

 

[youssef 2010]

just put a piece of wood above the pillow and it'll work fine

 

[liquidsnake718]

cpus like the atom wont get as warm, its the onboard gpu that would in the case of the atom

 

[liquidsnake718]

yeah those bed pillows with a flat surface are meant for laptops and books, ect, they sell it in bed bath, beyond, and probably in wal mart or home depot, its been around for about 15 years now so i dont see why ppl just dont use this

 

[miribus]

[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]

You beat me to it!
But seriously, no secret sauce needed here other than stop designing LAPtops where the most critical components' vent inlets are where your LAP is.
There, confusion solved.
Seriously inlets directly on the BOTTOM of the LAPtop? How was that ever a good idea, if you insist on calling them LAPtops.

 

[IM0001]

The ASUS G73JH/W Sorta fix this issue while also being a gaming laptop. Air goes in through vents on top of the laptop (above the keyboard closer to the screen hinges) and vents directly out the back. A lot better than the old in through the bottom and out the back/side design. The G53 series of laptops should perform similar.

 

[thlillyr]

I bet it will be somthing silly such as run pipes up the screen bezel for the intake on the left bezel and exhaust on the right bezel. Or taller feet. or they went wicked crazy and stole nvidia optimus idea and added an atom cpu in the computer. And that takes over when the powerful dual core overheats or somthing outlandish so they can call it "innovative".

 

[jerther]

My thinkpad T60 has keyboard input and side output vents all of which are easily removed for cleaning.

Of course maybe all those already existing cooling methods were already patented so Intel had to develop their own...