Belkin F5L001 Laptop Cooling Stand | List Price: $29.99
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Brand: Belkin
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Patented wave design and high-capacity fan enhance cooling capabilities
- Ergonomic features improve typing comfort and reduce wrist and neck strain
- USB-powered; no bulky batteries or adapters necessary
- Convenient storage compartment for USB cable when not in use
- Measures 12.6 x 11.6 x 1 inches (W x D x H); weighs 22 ounces; Belkin lifetime warranty
I'm finally done looking for a laptop stand... [Posted on 2008-11-20]
I've been through four or five different stands over the past year or so. I spend a lot of time working from home in the IT field, and many late nights reclining on the couch while I remote into networks. Every other one I got had airflow from top to bottom. Did me no good because my Thinkpad pulls air in from the bottom to flow through the unit and out the sides. So having fans try to pull air DOWN actually would worsen my thermal situation.
All of them had fan units that couldn't be reversed, and they all had something klunky about them anyway. Most sounded like a jet at the end of runway running up its engines. A few had nasty little screw hole covers as "feet" that were nothing but soft material with sticky backs that never held them in the bases - and I'd find them stuck to my pants, to my shirt, to my table...
This one is top noch. The bottom of the base is curved, so if you don't have the rear support in the "down" position, it fits incredibly comfortably on the lap, no edges digging in that will get annoying after an hour or two. The fan is dead center, so even with the feet up and the unit on the lap, it will get air coming into the fan from the "valley" created by the legs.
Fan is nice and quite. NOT silent, by any means, but after everything else I've had, it's darn close. Not something that would get annoying after a while. I'm using it without the fan more often than not since even just having this on the lap gives more room for airflow under the laptop than it has sitting on a desk or table anyway.
Great unit, worth every penny. Wish I had got this one much sooner.
Works but made cheap [Posted on 2008-11-20]
I bought this cooler a month ago. It works. It keeps my laptop 20 degrees cooler. However, at times the fan just stops working. One of the little black pieces of the fan broke off, and the door just snapped off when I closed it. It is very cheaply made.
pretty poor design [Posted on 2008-11-24]
The pop-out stand to tilt the laptop isn't very good. It doesn't lock, so when I lift it, the stand half closes, so I have to hold it open whenever I place it down.
When I place the cooler on my lap, the 2 ridges on the bottom aren't very comfortable to me.
After 3 months of use, the fan sounds like it's dying. I wouldn't be surprised if this is because the fan scraped up some stuff off of cloth surfaces(like pants, bed covers, or anything I put the cooler on top of) because there's not much clearance on the bottom beneath the fan.
Now, it's only being used on my desk as a stand to tilt my laptop(not using the fan because of the noise). At least the Belkin cooler provides space under my laptop for some natural cooling.
After 4 mos [Posted on 2008-11-28]
This does lift your laptop up and fits your lap nicely, the power cord and place it plugs in is made very cheapy and pushes in when you plug it in. I have taken mine apart at least every month to push the cable back so the cable fits. Works at cooling but the plug doesnt stay in the socket it is intended so if you dont mind taking it apart to fix it monthly...
A Great Choice [Posted on 2008-12-01]
I'm sorry to see all the reviews from people having quality problems with this item. I suppose Belkin deserves it - my first unit became noisy and I had to have them replace it because the store from which I bought it was too far away to drive back. But the fan really is teriffic.
It is not noisy at all. It is as quiet as can be. It's intelligently designed so that the fan isn't in direct contact with the bottom of the laptop, enabling it to pull air out and away, and it's very effective at cooling.
It doesn't LOOK like it would be comfortable on your lap, but it is.
I haven't had any problems with the power cord, but the newly-designed one is shorter than on my first unit, so now I have to use a USB extension. Not a biggie, because I already had one I wasn't using, but I do think they could (and should) have made it a few inches longer.
I got a second one at Costo for $18.95. If this one ever dies, I'll buy another. Perhaps they should have designed the fan to be more durable (judging by others' comments here) and charged more for it, but I'm pretty happy with this unit, and you can't beat the price. I'd recommend it to a friend.
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