Slashdot has an article (“Cooling Hardware With Microfans“) that may be of interest to PowerBook users. Maybe we can look forward to a silent PowerBook in the near future?
Jeriten writes “NewsScientist puplished this story about how your chips could be cooled down without that huge and noisy fan. Answer is multiple fans sized smaller than head of a pin and growed directly to a surface of a chips.” Now if they could just make hard drives silent, we finally could hear ourselves think in a room with 3-4 computers. I tell ya, the noise generated by a few PCs doesn’t seem like much until you turn off the tunes.
