[QUOTE]Originally posted by steve c

 

I beg to differ. I don't know what it is, but it's gotta be more than that.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by PeaceLove&S2K

 

I've done that before. Dell will cover anything.

Mark

 

Tech TV had this stuff on that was used for cooling, some sort of polymer, looked like water, but did not conduct electricity

 

Nope, it's Novec 1230 fluid, a fluorinated ketone with a chemical structure of CF3CF2C(O)CF(CF3)2. It's for real. Highly pure water is indeed an low-conductive medium, but you wouldn't be able to submerge your hand or a computer in it and keep it that way. Another thing about 20 Mohm water is that it is highly corrosive. The leached impurities, salts, dust, whatever, would make the water more amenable to ionic transport and then zap, dead thinkpad.

Perfluoro-organics have a very low dielectric constant so they do not conduct electricity at all.

 

If it's classified as water, and is chemically induced, can you drink it?

 

IT's not water. Not deionized. Deionized water would easily pick up electrolytes from the keyboard from finger oil or sweat etc and then cause a short.

 

in the article above it says you can't drink it

 

Thanks! Crazy that water won't short circuit that shit.