Water proof laptop all solid state oil filled no motors

I've had this idea for years to build a metal laptop with all solid state components a touch sensitive lower screen and where the keyboard usually goes (used for the keyboard and other uses) and one for the regular monitor, Oil filled for cooling using the metal case for a heatsink and bluetooth and wifi for peripherals.

I would like to see this built BEN HECK

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System components that need built

Metal laptop case gasketed and sealed oil filled for thermal conduction to the case so no fans are needed.

Two touch screens one where the touchpad and keyboard traditionally are and one in the standard location.

Laser etched dual channel wifi, and bluetooth antennas on the outside of the lid.

Inductive charging with laser etched antenna on bottom.

Inductive charging matt.

Wifi or bluetooth usb switch could also be induction driven

The guts of a laptop installed.

william_hoffer over 10 years ago

oil is not a great conductor, hence why oil filled desktop came around (no fear it would short the computer) but it also does not conduct heat well to the metal. Oil being a liquid there comes the problem it trying to find any place it can escape threw. Don't want the laptop leaking precious oil all over things. Its a interesting idea for a build, but it would be better just to try and mod a laptop to use a water cooling system.
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to william_hoffer

well what about just potting resin? That could work just Pot the entire board battery and all so it's one thermal mass.
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

the concept is more for very low power consumption and silent operation as well as being slim and water proof.
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Former Member over 10 years ago

How about passive cooled laptop
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clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Intel has the NUC in a 4x4x2 inch box very quiet and packed with horsepower at only 15 watts. Add memory(laptop) and solid state to be very respectable. It even comes with a VESA mount behind the monitor of your choice.
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

that could be a great board for it
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kidiccurus over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

It is worth noting that mineral oil is very heavy, so completely filling a laptop with it would add a lot of weigh. I would personally just add an excessive heatsink and small fan to improve the cooling. I also personally would not want to sacrafie the wonderful typing experience of a physical keyboard, although the potential option to install an IBM model m into a laptop could make this worthwhile for me.
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to kidiccurus

The ideas more for passively cooled laptop. This was the only reason the mineral oil. As well as making it waterproof. I suppose you could create a bridge between the metal case and the CPU installing the motherboard essentially upside down so that the lowercase having been made of metal could act as one very large heatsink with no need for fans. I like my keyboard too but the concept is you could turn it side wade with a stand and have one large screen with your Bluetooth keyboard or fold it up and go it still will work.
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william_hoffer over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Resin is even worst heat transmitter than oil.
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william_hoffer over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Metal case and heat sing touching will cause the entire bottom to get hot. Now on some kind of thermal proof surface, great. On a Leg bad. Next A metal bottom also woukd spread heat all over the motherboard, Hard Drive, Optical Drive, Memory, and any item connected to it such as LCD and daughter boards. These items hate excessive amounts of heat. If you are building a laptop from scratch a water cooled system could be run. There are passive heat laptops but these usally lack any real computing power to prevent heat build up.
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