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MSI usually not very well known for innovations in the Motherboard area of the market has come up with a design that i think it will sure influence other Motherboard manufacturers in the future. Because the race to more efficient and green electronics has started its just a matter of time until all motherboards will use solutions like this one. Talking about the MSI’s Stirling Engine its simple, the CPU drives its own fan. MSI’s Air Power Cooler uses the energy inherent in the expansion of air as it warms up to drive a fan. As the CPU gets hot, it causes air in a piston to expand. That pushes out the piston rod, which turns the fan rotor, pulling air over a heatpipe-fed heatsink. The heatsing helps cool the piston, so the air inside becomes more dense, pulling the piston rod back to its original position.

The mechanism is well known and documented as the Stirling Engine and its named after its creator, Scottish engineer Robert Stirling, who described it in 1816, though the principles on which his machine were based were uncovered in the 17th Century.

MSI’s version can transfer over 70 per cent of the heat power to motive power, the company claimed, and it doesn’t use a drop of electricity to drive the fan. It’s not totally efficient, which is why it won’t run in perpetuity, but it is kicked into motion simply by the heat generated by the chip.

MSI has built the powerless cooler and placed it on a motherboard, which it’ll demo at the CeBIT show in Hanover, next week.

Since you liked my first post about the gOS and the green pc, i’m goint to add a fresh set of screenshots so you can see better how the gOS looks. It sure got my eye. Just click on the pictures to see full size.

Notice: This gOS screenshots were gathered from the web, so they belong to their original copyright owners.

You think that’s enough? No… here is more gOS screenshots.

And if you think this is enough, dont worry i’ve got more gOS screenshots …

Yes and even more gOS screenshots

The pre-installed OS is pretty good for most things, but I find it is a bit limiting for real work. Xandros comes with KDE 3.4.2, so installing any newer KDE based apps is tricky, since that will force the upgrade of the kdelibs and could break stuff.

The other reason why the default OS is not appealing to me is that there is a 2.3GB read only partition for the OS files and pre-installed programs. So you only have 1.4GB for your user files on the built-in drive. That wouldn’t really be such a big problem if you could free up some space, however even if you uninstall apps you don’t use, you can’t actually use any of that freed space because no data gets removed from the system partition. And if you install new apps it uses space on your user partition.

So that’s a no go. I installed plain debian on my EeePC and it works really nicely. All the apps I need (Firefox, Openoffice, Kopete, Konversation, KDevelop, , plus a full Qt/C++ development enviroment fits into 1.5GB so I have more functionality in much less space and much more flexibility. Got an extra 4GB SD card so I might put Windows on that (although windows is a bitch to install on removable storage).

Overall the EeePC is really awesome.. Even though it has a small screen, I find I’m using my main laptop less and less at home. There’s a huge benefit to having something you can easily carry around with one hand, has no moving parts, and can use in any place, and boots up super fast.

I got these pictures from a chineese website. They say that these pictures represent screenshots from google os which i find kind of hard to believe. First of all Google is a big company and i think they don’t alow information leeks like this one. If they want to show us pictures or screenshots of the Google OS i am sure we will be hearing this from them, and not from some chinese website. And second, the pictures don’t look good at all, i dont think that Google will make such a bad looking OS. I am sure Google OS will look better than this, and i cant wait for it to be released. Here is the gOS screenshots below, tell me what you think about them

If you would like to see more gOS screenshots you should check the gOS screenshot’s article.

Due to the holiday season up next the linux OS will get a great chance to become more popular than it is at Wal-Mart Stores. They were taking orders online Wednesday for a computer called the “Green gPC” that is made by Everex of Taiwan, costs $199 and runs Linux.

It will be available in about 600 stores, as well as online, Wal-Mart said. A comparable Everex PC preinstalled with Windows Vista Home Basic and more memory costs $298 partly because the manufacturer has to pay Microsoft Corp. for a software license, so I think people will like the new computer and discover the goods of linux.

Both computers come with keyboard, mouse, and speakers, but without a monitor. As you already may know Linux is developed and offered on a open-source basis by individuals and companies around the world.

It’s being used especially on servers because of its high stability on long term use. The variant of Linux on the gPC is called gOS and is derived from the popular Ubuntu variant. It’s mostly oriented toward Google’s Web sites and online applications, like YouTube, Gmail and the company’s word processing program, all of which can be used only when the computer is connected to a broadband line.

The PC comes with a dialup modem, but gOS doesn’t support it. So most users likely will get online using other ways. Google’s entrance to the OS market is relatively new and I think gOS will be a great chance for users who would like to move away from Microsoft and windows to something new and better.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien said it is stocking the computer in about one in eight stores to test the demand for an open-source product. The gPC has a low-end processor from VIA Technologies, plus 512 megabytes of internal memory, an 80-gigabyte hard drive and a combination DVD drive and CD burner. Everex says the processor is very energy efficient, meriting the “Green” part of the name.

here is a screenshot of the gPC or you could call it a gOS screenshot:

Sources :

http://www.thinkgos.com

http://www.everex.com

http://www.walmart.com

Also if you would like to see more gOS screenshots you should check this article of mine.