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    Minifit XL Laptop Stand Chills Your Computer's Hot Spots With Movable Fan
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Minifit XL Laptop Stand Chills Your Computer's Hot Spots With Movable Fan
    I can see the use for cooling pads when setting your laptop on your lap, but why is this needed? Are laptops getting so hot that the internal fan or the airflow present when setting the unit on a hard surface isn't sufficient to prevent it from cooking itself?
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    06/19/09

    @rpm773: Sometimes the heat generated will stain/discolor a surface. I know from experience.
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Minifit XL Laptop Stand Chills Your Computer's Hot Spots With Movable Fan
    Now does this cooler blow air or suck air? I have coolers of both kind, and I always wonder the difference in the two, performance wise. I feel the ones that blow down may work better b/c if you "strangle" the intake of a fan, it's performance drops. When the intake is under the laptop, it sucks cooler air under the whole laptop, which allows cool air to get to the lappies intake. Also, the intake for the fans aren't blocked or have a clearence issue.
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Minifit XL Laptop Stand Chills Your Computer's Hot Spots With Movable Fan
    Hello Simon.


    Welcome the Gizmodo. I'm Ponies.


    If you haven't found a book that gets that hot, you clearly aren't reading the right books. The ones I read get quite steamy.


    Also, heads up. We haze rookies around here. You won't know where; you won't know when. And Gawker Media will not reimburse you for your therapy bills. This is the only warning you'll get, Probie.


    love

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    06/19/09

    In reply to Minifit XL Laptop Stand Chills Your Computer's Hot Spots With Movable Fan
    Quite interesting, so does that mean the fans are movable?
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    06/19/09

    @siamgx: I hope you're joking.
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    06/19/09

    @craig_16: Mark this date. On the 19th of June, 2009, Hooked on Phonics stopped working.
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    06/19/09

    @siamgx: No the fans are not movable.

    What it comes with is a clip that hold the fan while you move the rest of the cooler.


    Oh wait, you didn't read the headline, why would you be reading my class "A" snark?

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    06/19/09

    @strider_mt2k: So it's like the Planet Express ship? It stays still and the universe moves around it?
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    06/19/09

    @NerdBurger_GitEmSteveDave:


    Pretty much like that, yes. :)

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