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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Laptop Cooling Pad

Having bought the new Dell Studio XPS 16, laptop, which overheats like hell (for whatever reason, only god knows), I had to find a solution to this heating problem.

I was looking at The IT Depot website, when I found the following laptop cooling pads:

1) Belkin (F5L001 and F5L001-BLK -without hubs, F5L025qe - with hubs)
2) Targus (AWE12AP - with hubs and two fans)
3) Cooler Master (Notepal Infinite - with hubs, Notepal X1 - without hubs)

After much consideration and being tempted to buy Belkin, I finally settled for the Cooler Master Notepal X1. Things that influenced my decision

i) Mine is a 16" laptop. The belkin coolers looked rather small, though they would easily fit inside a laptop bag.
ii) It had varying speed fan.
iii) Belkin was more portable, but then I don't plan to carry around my laptop and the cooler. For people considering to do so, I would suggest Belkin as they are sleeker.
iv) I could have easily paid slightly more for the ones which had USB hubs, but I reckon I won't require 4 more USB ports when I already have 3 on my notebook.

There were laptop stands by Allsop, which really really sucked. Who in their right mind would want to buy them ?

3 comments:

Buzz said...

wats with the programming blog all of a sudden?

herb said...

check out ergo-tilt. Laight and portable. Very sturdy. Five year warranty. Made in Canada and only $19.50. ww.ergo-tit.com

Karthik said...

@meow,

It's something I have been meaning to do for a long long time. I also thought it would be best to keep this out of the main blog. :)

@herb,

Will do. But I already have one, so I don't think I'll need another. (for now)