Gizmodo 
Enter your username and password.
Tip your editors:
Editorial Director:
Brian Lam | | Twitter
Editor:
Jason Chen
| AIM | Twitter
Features Editor:
Wilson Rothman
| Twitter
Senior Contributing Editors:
Jesus Diaz
| AIM | Twitter
Mark Wilson, Reviews
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchanan
| AIM | Twitter
Adam Frucci
| Twitter
Sean Fallon
| Twitter
Jack Loftus
| Twitter
John Herrman
| Twitter
Dan Nosowitz
Chris Mascari
Kat Hannaford
| Twitter
Rosa Golijan
| Twitter
Chris Jacob
Columnist:
Brendan I. Koerner
Interns:
Don Nguyen
Kyle VanHemert
Comment Account Questions:
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
Even the best of liquid cooling systems will lose some coolant due to evaporation, especially if your rig is a gaming powerhouse that runs hotter than the sun's core. If it's sealed you're just screwing yourself down th eline because you'll never be able to replenish that liquid coolant. A 20% decrease in coolant will render it less useful than the crappiest air-cooling solutions. Super-rigid hoses also mean good luck to you if you ever want to swap out hardware in the future.
Well designed air cooling with case airflow management beats liquid cooling every time in terms of cost, reliability and lack of danger to your hardware. Liquid cooling still can't bring your hardware below room temperature, and even the very best of them needs good-sized fans to pull heat from the radiator.
It's a novelty, nothing more, nothing less. I replaced my last liquid cooling set-up with a $60 fan with 6 heat pipes and a copper block and the results were lower CPU temps and far less noise and more space in my case.
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
Ergo;
He is a pointless conundrum of inanity.
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/06/09
01/02/09
01/02/09
01/02/09
What's the use of a tiny screen underneath your big screen? I don't get this. If it were on the cover of your laptop so that you could browse your contacts, I could understand that. If it was on the touchpad as a fun little "oh look my fingers make ripples like as if I was touching water" add-on, that would be okay. If it was a touchscreen with customizable shortcuts and such, that's cool too. But in it's current state, it just looks like added expense and wasted real-estate and no added functionality for the sake of saying "we have two screens!!!"
I guess it'll probably end up as a minor screen with system information and a digital clock display. This seems like a step backward in design and function in order to step forward in marketing and sillyness.
01/02/09
It seems to me that HP was so busy figuring out if they could put a secondary 800x480 screen of only limited use in that they never stop to think if they should.
01/02/09
Win.
01/02/09
01/02/09
The lack of humility before a crowded laptop market that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that HP and VooDoo are using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it.
They read what other modders like Ben Heck and Art Lebedev had done and you took the next step. HP and VooDoo didn't earn the knowledge for themselves, so they don't take any responsibility... for it.
They stood on the shoulders of modders to accomplish something as fast as they could and before they even knew what they had, they patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic hulking behemoth of a "laptop", and now -
They're selling it! They want to sell it!
01/02/09