Belkin Cooling Pad Gives Your Lap A Breather
Everyone knows that laptops can get hot. We’re talking uncomfortably, disconcertingly, something-in-there’s-gotta-be-melting hot. Belkin’s new laptop pad not only lifts your computer off of your legs but packs a USB-powered fan to keep your laptop cool. Cool!
With a sleek, curved shape, a USB-powered fan to circulate hot air away from your machine, and some patent-pending bit of design dubbed the AirFlow Wing, Belkin claims their new F5L055 cooling pad is “proven to cool better than others on the market”.
That may be true, but in a category cluttered with music-playing monsters and featured-packed lapdesks, Belkin’s simple, unobtrusive design is really what makes its cooling pad worth checking out.
If you agree, you can pre-order the pad, also available in black, from Amazon for $US25. According to Belkin, it will make its way to laps everywhere in April. [CrunchGear]
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Let’s hope it has a USB passthrough for that fan, which the previous model didn’t.
I have the original model and this looks to be exactly the same, except with a vent in the stand at the rear… It sure would be interesting to know what else is different in this new model.
Anyway, I’ve found the previous model to be pretty good, though it does make a fair bit of noise (a “hum”, about the same volume as a typical microwave cooking).
If you’re like me and have a laptop that gets hot enough to heat the earth, this is still one of the best purchases you’ll ever make, particularly if you’re laptop is used as a desktop-replacement some or all of the time…
The USB wire on the previous model that i bought broke somehow, lets hope they’ve made it more solid in this new model.
To the poster above, me and a friend both own the older model and had the noise problem. What you need to do is take it apart and give the fan a tiny bit of oil. should fix it up for quite a while.