Cooling Stands - Opinions - Experiences - Comments

1. TaliesinSoft - 21 October 2008

   I'm wanting to purchase a cooling stand, one with fans, to place under my MacBook Pro when I'm "on the road". i'm interested in the positive and negative experiences people have had with any of the various stands available.

   James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@me.com

2. fishfry - 21 October 2008

   I place my Pismo, which generates a fair amount of heat, on an inverted wire "in" basket from an office supply store. The metal acts as a heat sink; there's plenty of air flow; and the price is right.

   This does make typing a bit awkward, but I usually use an external keyboard and mouse.

3. RiKN - 22 October 2008

   Check out the Enermax CP001-B Aeolus. That should do the trick. Its got a 25cm fan!

4. isw - 22 October 2008

   Just raising the back of my MacBook by about half an inch made a nice difference by allowing the hot air a way to convect out from under the thing. You can get all sorts and sizes of clear, white, or black stick-on "feet" at your local hardware store.

   I got a couple of those feet and a couple of flexible clear plastic suction cups, and attached them together back-to-back. Stick 'em on when needed, pop 'em off for travel. another nice benefit is that it puts the keyboard at a better angle.

   Earlier Mac laptops had little feet built in; I wonder why they stopped?

   Isaac

5. RiKN - 22 October 2008

   Do Mac notebooks use heatpads to conduct heat to the bottom of the case like in the Mini?

6. Tim Lance - 22 October 2008

   I use whatever's available: pencil, CD jewel case edge, anything that gives a quarter inch or so of clearance under the back edge. For the past two hours I've been muxing video and surfing on my 2.4 GHz MBP / 4 GB RAM and not a whir from the fans.

   --

   Tim
   lance_1012@hotmail.com

7. billy@MIX.COM - 22 October 2008

   In comp.sys.mac.system isw wrote:

   Earlier Mac laptops had little feet built in; I wonder why they stopped?

   They fall out fairly easily... If you're near an Apple store, they will (or at least used to) replace them for free. I now have stick-on rubber feet on mine, and have yet to lose one.

   Billy Y..

8. isw - 22 October 2008

   I'm talking about *really* old ones -- PowerBooks. Some of those had rotating feet on the rear corners.

   Isaac

9. TaliesinSoft - 23 October 2008

   I'm trying the Micro Innovations cooling pad which I found at Fry's for $15. I figured that for that price I could take a gamble.

   The Micro Innovations pad has two USB powered fans and collapses to a size small enough to easilly fit in my carrying case. In a test I was able to have the fans on and got about two and a half hours up time when having my MacBook Pro battery powered.

   I frequently take my MacBook Pro to a favorite pub, enjoying a pleasant draft while working on a project. If anything the Micro Innovations stand raises the computer so that it is protected from an accidental beer spill!

   -)

   James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@me.com

10. Adrian - 23 October 2008

    Yep, the swivel feet/legs at the back of my 13 year old PowerBook Duo are still strongly attached! Rather amusingly someone at work saw my Duo the other day and made a "wow" comment ... she thought it was a cute new compact gadget notebook ... shocked to discover that Apple was making these things so long ago!

    Adrian