That's already done
The idea of a magnesium heat sink made me smile.
This would provide us with the spectacle of a Pyra in flames! Nicely thematic, but Pyras are rather pricey for a one-time entertainment use, however spectacular the effect. Your reading of that list is more optimistic than mine! It seems to me that the cause(s) of the 4 GB problems has (have) not yet been identified. And that until the cause(s) has (have) been identified, it will not be known whether the solution(s) will require hardware changes, software changes, or just configuration changes. Of course, like everyone else, I think, I hope that the problem(s) will be tracked down soon and that that solution(s) will just be configuration changes; that could happen any day.Well...As far as I can tell (most of the chat about this is a little over my head), while it works, it currently doesnt work "as it should". Setting the voltage over the spec to make it works is not ideal (battery life, thermal...).
The good configuration is still beeing researched. It's reassuring that I've never seen talk about hardware fault, so there's no talk about a new bord revision because of this, it's just some software (kernel) configuration to be found and applied at the right time. Others issues of the same genre are also being researched... I'm betting ED wait for all of this to settle
This might be all completed before ever the plastic cases are mass produced!
Magnesium + water + high temperatures = you're gonna have a bad time. Anyone who's taken a basic chemistry class knows that.
How, what we're they? The little ones I had were plastic with a steel blade in them. (As if a sharpened pencil want enough of a weapon, we also had the pencil sharpener with something that was basically a thick razor blade in it. That, and the countless paper cuts I got tell me that the rules against having knives were kinda pointless.) I don't know what the wall mounted ones were, but I thought they were all steel.I used to ignite pencil sharpeners in my younger years, fun!
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They look like this, the blade, the screw and some magnesium powder are the only things left after torturing it with a gas torch
Oh, I think I have seen some like that. Most of us just had the plastic ones, some with the compartment to hold the shavings. When I had the ones with that compartment they always opened or broke, sometimes getting shavings everywhere.They look like this, the blade, the screw and some magnesium powder are the only things left after torturing it with a gas torch
Microsoft? Figuring out cooling solutions?
Magnesium is very light and strong, used in a lot of places such as Thinkpad laptop frame, and Helicopters to give two examples.The idea of a magnesium heat sink made me smile.
