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Re:GE develops ultra-thin, almost-silent cooler for next-gen... by mtgx on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @02:09PM (#4911872)
Exactly. We already have silent and fanless tablets so I'm not sure why GE would be so troubled to get "almost silent" coolers.

How can the Dell Mini 9 be fanless, though? I don't think any Atom processor besides the smartphone-only Medfield is fanless. My old EeePC is also quite noisy when loading stuff, and it gets quite hot, too.

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Re:GE develops ultra-thin, almost-silent cooler for next-gen... by SkyMarshal on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @03:16PM (#4912190)
Some of us want the highest performance CPU and GPU possible in our laptop, but that requires a fan, but a silent fan would be a real value add over the current ones. Personally I'm happy to hear this, hope it makes it way into production laptops soon.
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Re:GE develops ultra-thin, almost-silent cooler for next-gen... by lazyjones on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @06:35PM (#4913157)
The Dell Mini 9 had an Atom N270, which is rated at 2.5W max. TDP: http://ark.intel.com/products/36331/Intel-Atom-Processor-N27...

There are (or were) plenty of fanless designs around that CPU on the market, from embedded/industrial PCs to nettop barebones, ITX mainboards and "panel computers" (i.e. early tablets).

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Re:GE develops ultra-thin, almost-silent cooler for next-gen... by mappu on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @11:37PM (#4914185)
For a data point, my home server is a fanless Atom D2700.
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