laptop heat
- Thread starter LordOpie
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Not really. Some of the docking stations we had hace a built in fan.
There are a few decent cooling pads with built-in fans for working with a laptop on a desk. Zalman makes one, Antec makes one - I know those two are both decent. They plug into the USB port for power.
Is that what you mean? There's not a lot that will actually be good for travel or working on your lap.
Is that what you mean? There's not a lot that will actually be good for travel or working on your lap.
bummer!
My woman's laptop consistently gets hot when she rests it on her lap for a while. Granted, when I'm on her, I get hot too.
I told her that if she doesn't change the way she uses it, that she'll overheat it. Maybe she wants a new one?
So, no product is really all that for resting the PC on one's lap? Darn.
use a magazine. works great as a heat shield.
or is the laptop itself overheating and causing problems?
or is the laptop itself overheating and causing problems?
Well, you can use the coolers while it's on your lap, but the basic fact is that when you're working with something on your lap, you're restricting airflow underneath it... so there's nothing to pull the hot air away. Even the laptop coolers need airflow from underneath, either to pull cool air in or push hot air out.
A low power notebook (and thus low-heat) would solve the problem, but I don't know if you want to buy a new notebook over this issue. My old notebook used to get pretty warm on my lap but it wasn't dangerously hot or enough to cause damage to the laptop.
A low power notebook (and thus low-heat) would solve the problem, but I don't know if you want to buy a new notebook over this issue. My old notebook used to get pretty warm on my lap but it wasn't dangerously hot or enough to cause damage to the laptop.
they don't even consume electricity. in fact, they create it! my house is powered by an iMac!
Tell that to the people who got actual burns from Macbooks. Then when you call apple and complain they tell you that it "isnt a laptop, it is a portable and not designed to be used on your lap".
All portables get hot, Apple doesn't happen to have some magical cooling fairy living inside theirs.
Dude, I was on a plane recently and this is what happened to a PC laptop user up in Business Class:
I sat there with my old Mac 3400C and played Carmageddon for 5 hours even after spilling coffee on the keyboard.
Proof positive!
Holy Crap!! Is that pic real???
I use the Antec chill pad. It works! That's all I can say, I def. see a difference using it and I own a newer model Macbook.
I use the Antec chill pad. It works! That's all I can say, I def. see a difference using it and I own a newer model Macbook.
maybe you should cut back on the $120 bottles of champagne.
Yea, I felt bad for the guy and the cabin just reeked for the rest of the flight and then 2 kids started crying. It was a terrible flight.
theres a reason they dont call them laptops anymore they are called notebooks
dude, I got the hook up that's off the hook!maybe you should cut back on the $120 bottles of champagne.
Sorry about bragging, but it's just so awesome to get all the alcohol for free
Tho it did make me very fat over the past year.
Nice job, Tubby.dude, I got the hook up that's off the hook!
Sorry about bragging, but it's just so awesome to get all the alcohol for free
Tho it did make me very fat over the past year.
A $120 bottle of booze is not a $120 bottle of booze if you didn't pay a $120. That is like my sister saying she saved $100 when she bought something for $200 that normally costs $300.dude, I got the hook up that's off the hook!
Sorry about bragging, but it's just so awesome to get all the alcohol for free
Tho it did make me very fat over the past year.
The wind may blow, but the tree trunk stands while twigs get snapped and tossed aside.
~ confucius
umm, huh?
The price of a product is what the market generally pays for it.
If something typically sells for $100 across the market, then it's value is $100.
Yeah - but the tree trunk stays in one place.
Forever.
I'd rather be a twig. They get to travel.
This "confucius" character must've been a retard.
So if I get a budweiser I can say I am drinking a $5 beer because that is whay they charge at the ball park?
Do you feel the ballpark is a good average representation of the marketplace?
It is the only place I would normally buy a Budweiser, so yes. Would you normally buy a $120 bottle of booze. Fat ass.:biggrin:
Nobody spends $120 on booze. They only drink that if they get it free.
So the only places you buy products is, in your opinion, the only market that matters?
Man, that's some ego-centric GWB-ish thinking!
And more importantly, stop drinking that crap beer.
Thank God people do and do it often! That's money in our pocket. Cha-ching!Nobody spends $120 on booze. They only drink that if they get it free.
Just tell here to put a book or piece of plywood under it to prevent the vent from being blocked.
But what if in a limited time offer you get 2 for $100?
Oh and all laptops get hot, Macs just look better while they explode.
