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Topic: Laptop Cooling Pads?

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My laptop throws off a lot of heat. Anybody have any experience with any cooling pads that work well?

How about the xpad...... www.xpad4laptop.com/ ?
 
Posted Wed 24 Oct 07 @ 12:40 am
Eric

Here's a cheaper way if your fan is at the back or side of your laptop. This is what I've done. I've stuck two little rubber stands on the underside of my laptop, just at the back on either side, it only raisers the back up of my lappy about 10mm but it lets the heat escape and freash air circulate.

See if it works for you

Jimmy b
 
in a bind i use a roll of wiretapedown tape n set the lappy on top of it. let it breath ;-)

great idea jimmy b
 
well i have the odessy L stand and ofcousre i put my laptop on it and on the bottom since its an L upsidedown theres room on the bottom and id put one of those square fans they sale at wal mart or k mart the fans are not that big thats what i use, i guess it works the same way like the cooling pad air goes up but its not a pad,cuz some of the cooling pads has two or maybe three small fans,well with this its just one big fan thats cooling it and it realy cools my laptop i dont think it even gets hot at all


Saludos
 
Well, my fans (4 of them) are all at the bottom... I 'm not sure if they are pushing or sucking air. But I would think as long as it can "breathe" freely, should be designed to keep a stable temperature.
 
i too have the L-Stand and i have no fans, i constantly run the laptop on it for hours and it seems to hold up pretty well now i have looked into cooling pads and i did not get the results better than having it on the L-Stand. every laptop is different i guess.
 
I have a cooling pad. It solved every cooling problem i EVER had. (I have an active one: with two fans in the back blowing air under my laptop.)
 
 
That looks slick. But how significant is the extra electrical load of plugging into USB (vs. exterally powered)? It says 1 Watt. I wonder how much a typical USB port is capable of?
 
well to get around the "how much power does it consume plug it into a powered usb hub and there ya go no extra strane on the computer its self, and a hub is cheap
 
Good idea!
 
 


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