15″ 15 inch & 3 Fan Protector USB Cooling Pad Stand Fan Cooler for Notebook Laptop in Black colour for Sony HP Dell Acer
Posted by staff | Posted in notebooks | Posted on 04-09-2010
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- Air Flow : 36CFM ,Dimension: 315mm(W) X 260mm(D) X (10mm – 4.5mm)(H) ,Noise Level: 25 dBA.
- Extremely heavy-duty construction the cooling pad to afford any weight or pressure put on.
- power source supported easily by the plug-and-play USB connection as a self-power model.
- Convinient, reliable and comfortable to carry.No need for any installation.
- Compatiable with any laptop(notebook) computer.
Product Description
This specially designed, light-weight, portable cooling pad can easily dissipate heat in your laptop/ notebook computer and protect and maintain their condition. Simply plug into your USB port and it will be working, , it suits Apple Mac Pc as well. 2 USB 2.0 ports can provide the up to 480MB/second data transfer speed. The main boay is made by top quality metal, so it can dissipate heat better than plastic coolers. Slim and smart design of the cooling pad system … More >>
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First of all, I’d like to praise the unbelievable delivery speed. I placed my order on Monday afternoon about 3pm, and I received it around midday the following day, despite the fact I picked the cheapest delivery option.
As for the actual product: I bought this product because my 6-year old Samsung laptop can get incredibly hot whilst running data-intensive applications, to the point that its fan starts making some annoyingly loud whirring noises, whilst slowing down the laptop performance. I got an expert to take out the fan in my laptop, clean it out from dust (this was about 6 months ago) and this overheating problem did not stop. So I bought this laptop cooler hoping that it would be an effective way to prevent my laptop from overheating.
The product is simple to use – just plug in a USB cable (no power adaptor required) and connect it to the laptop, and the cooler is running. It is very quiet, to the point you can barely hear it working, although if you put your hand over the fans you can feel a slight breeze of cool air.
Thing is, I did not find this product effective enough, simply because it is not powerful enough. I would have rather had a cooler with louder fans which were more powerful and cooled down my laptop more. I know this, because I have a laptop performance measuring program downloaded, which measures the temperature of your laptop processor. The temperature of my laptop ranged between 45-85C without the laptop cooler, depending on how many programs I was running at the same time, and how data-intensive these programs were.
With the laptop cooler up and running, and the laptop placed on top, the temperature of my laptop ranged between 40-83C. When my laptop was not under too much strain (I was not running too many programs on it) then the temperature was definitely lower than it would have been without the cooler. However, when my laptop was being pushed to its limits (it doesn’t take much to do that on my ancient laptop lol), the maximum temperature was almost as high as the maximum temperature when the cooler was not being used: 80-83C with the cooler, compared to 80-85C without the cooler. I don’t think a difference in 2C justifies spending any money on a fan – I had been expecting a noticable difference. Which was not the case.
Bare in mind that this was a review of this laptop cooler when used with MY laptop – maybe the cooler will be more effective when used with newer laptops with better in-built fans. I don’t know that as I haven’t tested this with other laptops.
For me, the conclusion would be: the cooler works. But it doesn’t work well enough to make a significant difference in cooling my laptop. Hence it makes little difference in the performance of my laptop. So beware.
Rating: 3 / 5
Never having had a laptop cooler, I can’t compare this to other makes.
One reviewer is right in saying that this cooler is not made of metal, but black plastic. However, this means that it is lightweight which is an advantage if you’re sitting with it on your lap.
Disadvantages:
1. The rubber pads on the upper of the unit are not glued on well, but this can be easily remedied.
2. The unit would benefit by being a little bit wider – one or two inches.
3. There are no rubber pads on the base which means that the unit has a tendency to slide about easily.
Advantages:
1. The cooler is lightweight, but sturdy and well made.
2. It works from a USB connection which means one less cable connected to the mains – which is the main reason why I chose this model. A short USB connecting cable is provided.
3. The unit is inaudible over the normal sound of the laptop.
4. I can’t compare this with other models, but it does make my laptop noticeably cooler.
I don’t know if there is such a thing as a perfect laptop cooler, but this model does the job to my satisfaction and I think is good value for money.
Rating: 4 / 5
the 3 fan usb cooling fan does exactly what it says very quite could not hear it working. the delivery was quick I have bought 2 for my childrens laptops and find them worth every penny cant speak about reliability have not had them longenough but at this price who cares
Rating: 5 / 5
i’m no expert in electronics and i have nothing to
compare this to but, before my laptop used to get very hot,
now it doesn’t-job done. it is also very quiet and delivery
was very good, just a couple of days, as i said- can’t fault it!!
Rating: 5 / 5
odered on a wed turned up on fri with the postman. pleased with it, though it could be abit wider 1″ to fit just right with my Dell inspiron1520.Fairly quite(same noise as my dell used to make) and keeps it alot cooler.Brought it because it seemed to be the widest one, fairly cheap and usb ports. Feet on dell fits onto cooler with not alot of give,but sits nicely on lap without covering up air intake.Can’t remark on reliablity as it’s only a couple of hours old!!Overall pleased.
Rating: 4 / 5