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we're here at CES 2025 to look at this

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Dell Pro 14 premium now it looks pretty

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standard from here although if you look at it from this angle you can see that

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it's Slimmer than any other one that has ever been made and that is because this

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particular example does not have a single fan in it but it's not fanless

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well it is but it also has ice as in an

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ion cooling engine let's have a look at in this is the ventiva ice 9 and if you

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look really really close there is a super tiny wire right here and across it

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they put 5,000 volts now before we get

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into the science of that you might be a little bit concerned about having 5,000

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volts just in your laptop but don't be concerned the current limits are super

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super small so if you touch it you'll get a tiny bit of electric shock but it

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will not be harming you what that 5 th000 volts does is ionizes the air

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giving it a positive charge and then this area in the back is grounded which

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is effectively a negative charge this means you know positive attract to

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negative air goes out the back of your laptop and becomes nice and cool this

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guy right here is capable of about 8 CFM

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which is similar to what you would find in a typical thin and light laptop fan

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now I did ask them if it's possible to just throw More Voltage at the the

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problem and get more air flow out of it but it turns out that the limit of this

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is actually the breakdown of the air so

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at a certain point this stops becoming ionizing air and you get lightning in

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your laptop which is obviously not very ideal so physics kind of has them a

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little bit constrained but fortunately space doesn't necessarily they have a 40

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W solution right here because of the size of it it actually works really well

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with typical heat sink designs like you think of it a fin stack is always thin

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long that sort of a shape a fan is a

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square so if you can instead have a little ion driver chummy that is there

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instead it's much more convenient for the design of your thermal solution one

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problem though is that the static pressure of these is uh not not good at

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all it's very very bad the poor air flow

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though is not really vena's problem in this case it is Dell's so they have been

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actually working with Dell and Intel to help Design This which is incredible I

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cannot believe that oems are already on board with this but basically they've

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redesigned how the vents are put in the bottom of the laptop to optimize for

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very low static pressure and high air flow which allows us to have very

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similar performance to a laptop that has traditional fans in it and it also even

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means that can be thinner because you don't need the air gap that a

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traditional blower fan does need over top of it very cool now why would you

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want to do that well very simple sound a

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typical laptop like this might be somewhere around 28 DB around there is

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whereas with the ventiva ice it's able to get down to

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14 I can almost guarantee you that whatever room you are in right now is

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way louder than 14 DB for some context

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of how absurdly quiet 15 DB is we have

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put a bunch of work into creating an acoustic chamber at our office and that

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is able to get about like an 18 D noise

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floor meaning that even with as much

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isolation as we can put into that little room we still would not be able to hear

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this thing it is so quiet only the air moving through the fins creates a noise

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two problems though if they want to make this an actual product first of all

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powering the thing it's 5,000 Vols so

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that can be an issue and the second is it might be a bit toxic we'll get to

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that in a bit first of all the power so this right here is a pretty typical

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stepup converter basically you go from 5 Vols to 5,000 using just a whole bunch

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of little Electronics in there this one

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as it stands is about 60% efficient and

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that Nets you compared to a normal fan something like minus 20% efficiency now

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Dell says currently that's about a wash for power because since it is smaller

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than a traditional fan they can add in more battery but at the same time

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theoretically this could be more what like 80 to 90% efficient and they do

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think that they can get up to around there which would bring it just about

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even with the efficiency of a typical computer fan the second problem toxicity

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sponsoring this video okay back to the toxicity thing now when we are ionizing

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air one of the things that is in air quite an important part of it is oxygen

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and oxygen is two oxygen molecules that are together you ionize it boom they go

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apart now you have oxygen and another oxygen just o1 the problem is is that

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sometimes it likes to create o03 which is Ozone and which is not particularly

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good for you now in higher quantities ozone can be toxic you could never

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create a toxic amount of it out of one of these guys but at the same time it

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smells you only need a very tiny bit of

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it for it to be smelly cuz our noses are excellent at their job to combat the

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ozone they have actually coated the fins in the heat sink with maganese dioxide

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that acts kind of like a catalytic verter in your car which takes the ozone

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and allows it to easily go back into the O2 that it wants to be even if you just

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have ozone normally in your house it will break down in 25 minutes or so that

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is the halflife so you don't really have to worry about it but you don't want

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your laptop to be smelly one other thing that I was a little bit curious about

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though is dust it seems like that if you have just this tiny little wire in there

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it could be very prone to getting clogged up and of course it is not

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impervious to dust but interestingly it

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can also detect dust now they won't tell me exactly how it works trade secret

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crap but apparently the electrical characteristics of this wire will change

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as dust gets attached to it and they can actually create a report of how much

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dust your laptop has in intake and also

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Dell apparently will just not make a laptop if it gets dusty and stops

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working I asked them about how they do it and I guess they have just a chamber

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that is filled with cat hair and dust and they just shake a laptop around in

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it for quite a while and if it stops working they don't sell you that laptop

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makes a lot of sense another thing you might be concerned about is

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upgradeability but fortunately that's very simple there's a screw right here

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and a screw right there and then you pull on this and it doesn't come off cuz

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it's glued down in this prototype but in theory you could just take this top

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cover off swap out this component right here and then boom you have a working

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not fan fan once again and another thing is just the cost now of course they are

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absolutely nowhere near the economies of scale that you have with fans fans have

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been around for a very long time and unsurprisingly people have gotten very

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good at making them for cheap but that said these right here are very uncom

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licated it is a wire and a little bit of stamped metal so this portion right here

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should be quite cheap although that said you do still need a PCB and a bunch of

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electronics to get it up to 5,000 volts so they don't expect it to ever get

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below the cost of a fan but it should be able to get pretty darn close and again

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I just want to talk about how absolutely

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stoked I am about this not just cuz I have a cool engineering sample thing

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here I've seen loads of weird engineering samples and again the thing

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that makes me the most excited about this is the fact that ventiva aren't the

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only ones that are excited about it this is a real proof of concept that was made

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in collaboration with Dell and Intel has also been putting a lot of engineering

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behind getting it integrated and just generally testing it with their designs

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that means that it isn't just them looking for it but there's a good chance

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that you might actually have a Dell laptop in the future that has no stands

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but still has forced induction what

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would you call it but still has air flow still has air flow sure we'll call it

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that now one final thing here you guys get to decide who is correct the Dell

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inventiva Engineers have been arguing of

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what they should call this phenomenon there's a couple names so we can either

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go with kulic Force electrohydrodynamic

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flow ion drag or Corona wind put down in

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the comments below which one you think should win just like you should have a

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