[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Laptop cooling pad?

[Chris Cox]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:52 -0700, Dennis Daupert wrote:
> I recently bought a Strata 3663 laptop from zareason. So for, it works great. 
> 
> I bought a Targus Chill Hub XC laptop cooling "pad" to sit under the Strata. This is the first time I've gotten into the chill world. 
> 
> Here's my question: The pad's chill fans blow upwards, towards the laptop. Doesn't that work _against_ the laptop's fan, which is trying to blow air downwards? I didn't actually take high school physics, so maybe I just don't understand such deep things, but to my layman's mind, this just seems wrong. 
> 
> What do you guys do to chill your machines?
> 
> /dennis

To me... biggest problem is just ventilation... we sit them on ourselves
or surfaces that restrict the airflow that the laptop needs.  For my
wife, I bought her:

http://macenstein.com/default/2008/01/review-g800-aerogel-extreme-wide-lapdesk-by-laplogic/

Actually, it was the older W700 version.. but still.. it works ok.