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Under normal circumstances will this ever need replacing? Expecting this to be much better than paste, compared to 2-3 years for paste before conductivity drops, liquid metal should last 5+ years minimum? How much more in percentage does it cost compared to paste? I know there are different kind of paste but just a rough estimate. Is this the first in Laptops? It took years before Thermal Pad took off ( all because o…
No, it’s unlikely you’ll ever need to replace the liquid metal. It is indeed substantially more expensive (e.g. dollars instead of cents) due to both the material cost and the extra process steps. We’re not the first to do liquid metal in a laptop. Others have done earlier-generation liquid metals that are liquid at room temperature that have significantly more challenging design requirements. We’re one of the earlie…
( I will surely mention this next time Framework comes up on HN )