You have a Laptop cooler?
 

My laptop gets hot as hell and i researched these laptop cooling pads they seem to be bad. Some interfere with the intake fan on the bottom of the laptop.

I might build my own. What do you use?

i cleaned out my fridge and do most of my computing inside the fridge in the summer :winkwink:

* might work.

I got it works ok its very loud , its a bytecc .

http://www.short-media.com//draco/im..._connected.jpg

might wnna try this article for ghetto cooler
http://www.short-media.com/articles/...ng_your_laptop

i might run some duct work from my central air to it but it dont help when i travel:1orglaugh

yeah it would be nice if it was quieter but its works so we deal with it

I have this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Targus-PA248U-...&s=electronics

It's so quiet that at first I was always checking to see if it was really on.

I have the same one :thumbsup

Was thinking about it but my machine actually runs pretty cool.

See that would conflict with my intake fan on the bottom of my laptop.
I'm just going to make one i can make a better one anyway. I'll put a fan pointing directly to where the cpu is and near the harddrive and one for the battery. These just put fans wherever they look nice and symetrical not where the components are that get hot.

Oh and mine will plug into the wall with an ac adapter u get faster fan speeds and u dont have to worry about using usb draining battery power and resources.

very good solution!!! hehehe

Interesting solution ! Does it work or is it useless ? Maybe I`ll try it too on my laptop and see if it works :)

The internal fan on my laptop was constantly running. Since I bought the cooler, it comes on maybe once a month - if that.

If you don't block the intakes or exhausts there shouldn't be heat problems.

I bought some cheap 19.99 thing from sams one day. It WORKS!

My laptop is notorious for overheating but i found a simple solution.. dont leave it running 24/7!

btw this is my bad boy:
http://fr.gizmodo.com/dell%20xps%20m1710.jpg
Dell XPS M1710... love that thing

You might want to try cleaning out the cpu compartment/heatsink and the fan. Mine started getting pretty hot, but once I cleaned the dust out of there and put some new thermal glue on the cpu, it doesn't get hot at all.