Laptop Cooling Tray

PasturesNew

Not coolers, but I've got a nifty laptop table, from Ikea. £16.99 http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20078234 and available in three colours. The top sits flat or tilts.

I've also used a bog-standard lap tray before and it's been fine.

I picked up a bed table the other week for £3 too, it was in the sale, then relegated to a clearance corner, but you can get these from Betterware (among other places). http://www.betterware.co.uk/productdetails.aspx?pid=058082&cid=263&language=en-GB

Edinburghlass_2

I use a laptray with the cushion underneath, Morrisons always have them for about a fiver. My current one was a Mother's Day gift from my daughter and says Best Mum

Sowilo_2

Had 2 G6000 both were very noisy. Both also had duff motherboards, 1 repaired just in guarantee, the other scrapped as 15 months old and HP wanted fixed price £267 to repair. Replaced with Toshiba which is sweet as a nut, quiet and cool. No longer need my cooling tray.

Bowling_4_Gold

Would this help at all??

glicky

I use this and it works wonders. I highly recommend it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-F5L001er-Laptop-Cooling-Stand/dp/B000W0D15O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1273450247&sr=8-1

JasX

LadyMorticia wrote: »

Has it helped enormously? Sometimes my laptop gets so hot that I almost burn myself if I touch the bottom of it.:eek:

+1 vote for an Akasa tray, I picked up the 17" 'classic cooler' one for about £20 and its made a huge difference,

http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.list.tpl&type=Notebook%20coolers&type_sub=NB%20Coolers

Before it'd overheat and stutter even with moderately demanding tasks like playing a DVD, bottom was hot enough to burn yourself on and you could 'feel' alot of this heat comming thru to the top/keyboard surface.

using the cooler made all these problems go away (i did open it too and make sure any dust on the cooling fins was blown away -wasn't much there tho). the fans on the akasa cooling tray are very quiet too.

As a stop gap measure grabbing one of these from your kitchen oven will probably get you 50% of the way there by getting the laptop well above the table level and spreading the heat a bit



whatever one you go for make sure it's at least as big as your laptop (ie don't get a 15" one for a 17" laptop)

macman

Standing a laptop on a duvet etc will soon kill it through lack of cooling.

jimbms

This is a common complain with HP machines, I had this with it keep shutting down due to over heating (and yes I do clean vents on a regular basis) and bought a coolermaster tray had no problems since.

laptopim

I have a Dell inspiron 1420 and I was able to easily open it and clean the heatsink... Since then my laptop does not go over 45 degrees any more.

You can check your cpu temp using a software that's called speedfan.
Cleaning the heatsink is easy by opening the hatch at the back of the laptop , you can find some videos on youtube that shows how to do it .

If you are not the adventourous type , you can just get one of them cooling laptop trays that will help cool your laptop.
You can get some nice ones here : www dot ilapdesk dot com

Good Luck

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