The Glade 4.0

Can anyone recommend a good one?

Either we have a messed up fan or a lot more dust and critter hair swirling around hour house than I'm aware of, but our laptop shuts off a lot when playing games or running lots of tasks at once. Doesn't seem to be any hardware issues so I'm leaning toward overheating.

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The biggest reason I think you need something to sit the laptop on is, without a solid surface you can block the vents.

I use a Logictech Portable Lapdesk N315. I got it at Target, under $20.

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-939-0001 ... B002NTADVW

For my 17" MacBook Pro, that's too small though, so I use a 12" X 24" finished board planed down to 1/2 ".

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Our laptop pretty much stays on a desk 99.9% of the time so it's not a question of blocking the vents through using it on the go.

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I've never had that problem. Use a vacuum and suck it out, and get a util that shows the temp of the cpu and gpu to figure out what's gong on.

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I use one of the Zalman cooling pads.

They're heavier aluminum, so they're meant for pretty much desk-only use, although I do take it with me when I travel- it's not a lap desk, though.

It's quiet, and it's amazing on cooling- my laptop gets hot fast without it, with it I never feel any heat at all, even doing graphics intensive modeling calculations.

Also, the cooling surface covers the entire bottom of the laptop, a lot of the other ones only really covered a small part.

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I just have a silly little Targus laptop cooling pad from Wal Mart. It serves its purpose

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Thermaltake makes some good ones that have the advantage of being nearly silent. I picked up this one:

http://www.thermaltake.com/product_info ... ov=n&ovid=

Makes about a 4-5 degree internal temperature difference under load, and that's on a laptop that runs fairly cool to start with, with a nonstandard fan/vent layout so the pad doesn't help as much as it might on other laptops than mine. It was somewhat inexpensive, too. ($39.99 Cdn.)

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This is the Zalman pad I got. It's got an extra USB port on the side, and adjustable fan speeds.

My laptop runs hot, and I see somewhere around a 20 F reduction in temperature, possibly more. It goes from "uncomfortable to type/touch, to actually cold to the touch.

I've used both Targus and Belkin pads before, and never saw this kind of improvement.

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