Toshiba Developing Liquid-Cooled Notebooks

Toshiba Inc. is developing a new technology dubbed 'Super Cooling,' which will be incorporated into Toshiba's notebook computers. The new cooling apparatus utilizes a copper tube filled with purified water, which draws heat away from the processor. This cooling method will be available in Toshiba's Protege 3040 model. The notebook will ship next week with a price tag of $2,499.

In this new technology, one end of the copper pipe sits over the processor. As the CPU heats up, the water inside the pipe will begin to boil. When this happens, it expands the funnels towards the other end of the pipe, which will draw the hot water away from the processor, towards other cool parts of the notebook.

"This is designed to take heat away from the CPU and funnel it to the cooler areas of the PC," stated product manager for Toshiba's Tecra and Protege notebooks, Craig Marking. He also said the Super Cooling technology is designed for both Intel and AMD processors.

Marking remarked that Toshiba hasn't yet determined if Super Cooling will be used in other Toshiba models, but the company is willing to license the technology to other notebook manufacturers.