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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5663
It's a step forwards in cooling technology, but why don't they just go for the compressor? After all, the compressor has been with us for over 100 years and still beats Peltiers by far in terms of cost per BTU of capacity. (Anyone can buy about 5000BTUs/hr of compressor-based cooling for about $100. Try that with Peltiers...)

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

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Because compressors are large, heavy, and not exactly pocket sized.

Only extreme setups use compressors and deal with the challenges they bring...


Looks like another machine that Dell puts everything in, then jacks the price up on

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Originally Posted by Grentz

Looks like another machine that Dell puts everything in, then jacks the price up on

True, but, but, think of the.... er... the... uhm.... never mind.

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Thanks JMJ!

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Because compressors are large, heavy, and not exactly pocket sized. Only extreme setups use compressors and deal with the challenges they bring...

With the use of R410a, a compressor can be made much smaller physically for the same capacity. (There was a compressor the size of a soda can intended for computer cooling. It used R404a.)
And when you make a compressor that small, it's not very heavy.

I still wonder why compressors for CPU cooling are only found in high end homemade PCs and Britney workstations... (Of course, in the case of a Britney workstation, good luck trying to pull down to -35C using Peltiers, not to mention having to maintain that temperature at up to 200w of heat load per CPU...)

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.