Fujitsu's water-cooled LifeBook N7010 with secondary 4-inch touchscreen now shipping
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Dec 15th 2008 4:40AM
posted Dec 15th 2008 4:40AM
When you pack a 16-inch laptop so full of technology that it requires water cooling, well, you have to expect some compromises. First, the Fujitsu LifeBook N7010 is nearly 2-inches thick and weighs 7 and a half pounds. Then there's the little limitation of that 1 hour battery life. In return for your suffering you do get a built-in Blu-ray drive, a digital television tuner, 1.3 megapixel webcam, HDMI output, 4x USB, Firewire, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, eSATA, ExpressCard/54, fingerprint scanning security, and multi-touch touchpad. Oh, and it run Vista atop a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo P8600 processor, up to 4GB of memory, a 320GB disk, and 256MB of ATI Radeon HD 3470 graphics. As for that multi-function (media control, application launcher, etc.) 4-inch LCD touchscreen sporting 480 x 272 pixels, Akihabara News says it "seems responsive." So there. Shipping December 26th in Japan.
P.S. The US version is shipping immediately (starting at $1,499) but without a TV tuner (naturally) or water cooling (odd).
P.S. The US version is shipping immediately (starting at $1,499) but without a TV tuner (naturally) or water cooling (odd).
[Via Akihabara News]
just ordered mine. so pumped.
i get it, because its water cooled.
I think this deservers a nice big, daaaaaaaaanm!
Who's Dan M?
7 pounds actually isn't that heavy. Not quite sure what the BIG deal is.
I don't see anything mentioning water cooling, and in any case I don't think it's possible to have water cooling in a laptop, so if this was a lame attempt at humor it kind of failed hard. Except for the so-so graphics card, this is a pretty cool system, but if it weren't for the 4" touchscreen it wouldn't be notable at all.
Well, if you clicked on the read link you'd find the following machine-translated text:
"In high-definition video can enjoy a quiet environment with water-cooled system. The main source of heat is a major component, such as CPU cooling, water cooling systems, television viewing time, less than murmur about 25dB (Note 5) the realization of the static and noise."
Water cooling is possible in laptops. It just isn't normally done because:
- It takes more power to run than a fan
- It adds to the size
- You normally don't need it
A quick Google search came up with this Hitachi machine: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/hitachis-water-cooled-p4-notebook-20020719/
So there.
@Karl: Well, I posted a reply to myself about how I found a few things like that, but Engadget ate it or something (what else is new?). I think that a paragraph that long couldn't be attributed to machine translation error, and I accept that it's possible, but I still don't believe this laptop has it. Neither CNET[1] nor Laptopmag[2] mention it in their previews, and I think if it were truly water-cooled they would be mentioning it in the headline, as Engadget did. Also, there's really nothing in that laptop that would call for water cooling; the processor is not especially exotic and the graphics card is just a basic graphics card (that they'll still try to charge $100 extra for since it's in a laptop).
[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10081865-1.html
[2] http://blog.laptopmag.com/fujitsu-lifebook-n7010-hands-on-and-video
"P.S. The US version is shipping immediately (starting at $1,499) but without a TV tuner (naturally) or water cooling (odd)."
That's why your reviews don't mention it.
Whoa...water-cooled...
But can the secondary screen run Crysis?
Let it fucking die already.
I like how companies always paste a picture on the blank screen - you can tell by the reflection.
... And having seen quite a few reflections in my time
i don't see why (non-mac) notebooks can't adopt slot loading drives instead of these stupid slim drives. i am by no means an apple fanboy (i own an hp) but that's the only thing i like about the macbooks.
Good question. I'd also like to know why there aren't more backlit keyboards.
They can and do. The [url=http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop_studio_17?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs]Dell Studio 1735[/url] and 1535 have slot loading DVD drives as standard.
That'll teach me to try hyperlink on Engadget again! lol
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop_studio_17?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs
I have a slot loader on my acer and it sucks. I much rather tray drives.
Slot-loading drives are loud?
My Dell XPS M2010 has a slot-loading drive, and the eject mechanism is louder than a regular "pop-out" drive.
Laptop or thighmaster? you be the judge!
Cool, cool and more cool. I'd buy one, but 1 hour battery life? Can't do it.
...fail.
Its liquid cooled, 2" thick, and all they can fit in there is a Radeon 3470 IGP??!??!??
wtf.
dude, its not expensive. And you can customize it...
exactly.. Why water cool a laptop if it only has a dual-core 2.4Ghz and crappy graphics card?
water cooled...
well that's lame
Buy a gamer desktop with secondary display on the case, and a nice big LCD screen. Put the whole thing on a trailer with a generator, and you get more power at the same weight and size.
What's the point of watercooling this? If it had powerful hardware that ran hot, I'd see it. But it has a P800 (which is more than enough power for just about anything) which runs very cool and a fricking HD3470. That's not even a midrange card, but a low end one. And it's 55nm and it runs cool... What's the point?
I hope that is doesn't have more than 3 ounces of water in it. The TSA will have a new Christmas gift. :-)
I doubt it is JUST water inside. LOL. It'd be stupid to suck the water outta the thing.
This is perhaps the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. I understand the sacrifices people make for gaming "desktop replacement" laptops... but what niche does this fall in? Radeon 3470 didn't need watercooling last I checked, the processor isn't even all that. I'm baffled.
I'd rather have a full size desktop keyboard on this thing instead of this normal laptop layout with such big border, also that 4" screen is a lot less useful than a super wide 2nd display...
A 2 "inch laptop which can't accommodate a proper 6 pin FW port or a FW800 port. Lame.
I swear it's not pee. My notebook leaked on me, really!
?????
i can't beleive this is a product being released in the last part of 2008.
looks awful, and bulky, tray loading is crap, and... i've never felt the need to have my laptop water cooled.
what a pile of shit
"tray loading is crap" wow, your the crap dude..! when you dont know what to whine about you bitch the tray loading... your full of shit man. You obviously cant reconize a good deal. Go back to TUAW.
Believe it or not, not everybody wants a laptop to sit in a starbucks lounge drinking coffee and blogging on their Macbook Airs. There is a market for high performance laptops, regardless if they are your thing or not.
This laptop is kick ass.
@Mich
How exactly is a core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz and ATI 3470 "high performance"? The Macbook is probably faster than this!
"P.S. The US version is shipping immediately (starting at $1,499) but without a TV tuner (naturally) or water cooling (odd)."
Why is it _natural_ for the US model to have no TV tuner? Can someone explain?
Beats me!
Japanese and American television frequencies and encodings are different. Most Japanese companies won't make the ATSC tuners for Americans because they use something different (ISDB).
so you literally wet your pants when it gets too hot and burst a pipe....
This laptop is on the low end, why ppl here thinks this notebook kicks ass?
The water cooling is not required at all, the CPU, GPU creates little to no heat. A nice heat sink is all required for fanless operation.
This laptop is fail. Please people, do not think this notebook is good when it's water cooled.
The water pump produces a lot of heat so the other components get very hot so they need water cooling to cool everything down.
linuxamp- lol the pump....
It sounds like the worst "laptop" ever.
Why do you need to watercooling when the GPU is a relatively weak HD3470?
No doubt that on its US product page, Fujitsu is actually recommending the extended battery. More information and pictures on following link:
http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1916
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Kamal DS
I work for thermal managment startup, Influent, and we have heard from several major laptop OEMs that there is no viable liquid cooling solution that can fit into an average laptop height .7-1.5 inches. This Fujitsu release seems to demonstrate that this is true. Check out some more info www.influentmotion.com/blog.