On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Vladimir Pantelic vladoman@gmail.com wrote:
mass-volume. no fans. returns too great on mechanical parts. failure. plus heat pump as part of the standard would mean that *all* products would need to have a heat pump. that is extra overhead that would destroy the standard because low-cost products would no longer be low-cost.
so.... no. no fans. no heat pumps.
water cooling?
i'm not sure if you're joking, vladimir :) assuming you're not: it would be the sort of thing that would be ok on a CPU Card, if it wasn't for the fact that it's only 5mm thick. no on the I/O boards because again, that would mean that *every* single system would have to cope with the *possibility* of a 6W (or above) CPU Card.
this will all be fine for the Type III PCMCIA Cards, that's on the roadmap at some point. there it will be absolutely fine to put in thermal cooling by default onto I/O boards because the cost of such systems would be higher anyway because the cost of the CPU Cards would also be correspondingly higher (and also much faster clock speeds).
l.