The wonderful world of computers; you simply gotta love it since it has to be one of the fastest -if not the fastest- evolving marketplaces in the world. It seems that every day some one or some company is bringing out a new idea (or even just a tweak on an old one) that makes our computers more efficient or more powerful. However, if there is one truism that seems to be the only constant in this ever changing ecosystem it is this: computers run hot, always have and probably always will. The more transistors we cram into a smaller and smaller space the more energy is lost to heat. Hopefully, one day we will solve this dilemma and our systems will be 100% energy efficient (though I highly doubt this day will come unless we get Quantum computers).
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Review: Hardware Canucks
May 21, 2008, 06:48 PM
