laptop cooling ideas?

[Rich Holland]

Michael T. Halligan wrote:

> Beyond a big piece of rock, does anybody have any better ideas for
> cooling laptops, that are preferably quiet?

Everyone's been suggesting passive cooling systems that work by just elevating
the laptop.  Go look on ebay for 'laptop cooling fan' (e.g.
http://tinyurl.com/5gj2u) and you'll find several similar designs, but they
have 2-3 low profile fans in the bottom designed to suck air out the sides of
the device; I would think these would work better than a passive design that
relies only on the laptop fan.

I'm seriously thinking about an aluminum model; my 1.7G P-M gets awfully warm
after a Doom3 session, especially around the memory slot where I've got a
couple 1G sticks.  I suspect the regular CPU cooling fan isn't doing much to
help these, and it gets too hot to touch after an hour or so.

Rich
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