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Antec USB-Powered Notebook Cooler | 
 enlarge | Brand: Antec
Category: CE
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $20.95
You Save: $14.04 (40%)
New (53) Used (4) from $20.00
Rating:  324 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 13 x 11.2 x 0.9
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: NOTEBOOK COOLER
Model: NOTEBOOK COOLER
UPC: 761345440004
EAN: 0761345750042
ASIN: B0000BVYTV
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Protect your valuable investment and reduce heat-related instability | | • | USB-powered cooler with pass-through connector included | | • | Draw power from any USB port without losing use of the USB port | | • | No batteries or power adapter needed | | • | AQ3 Antec Quality three-year warranty |
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Product Description
Overheating laptops are a bigger problem than most people realize, as heat reduces system stability and harms the lifespan of your electronics. To combat this problem, you need the Antec Notebook Cooler! Increasing the cooling your laptop gets can help it last longer, and may reduce or even eliminate system crashes.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Quiet and Cool August 31, 2005
Scott M. Kruse (Fresno, CA USA)
56 out of 66 found this review helpful
The cooler sits under my 43 cm (large monitor) Macintosh Powerbook. The Powerbook is often on for 8 to 10 hours a day and keeps everything very cool. The cooler powers from the left-hand USB port. The pass-through USB plug enables the USB port to be used by a printer and other peripherals. There are two fan speed settings, high and low. I only run on the low setting. A good, solid, cost-effective choice.
Better Than the Rest! (Based on My Tests) April 13, 2008
Neil S. Majd (Southern CA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Most of laptop cooler/chill pads are made of PLASTIC and use fans that blow air TOWARDS the laptop. What impresses me about this product is that the cooling surface is made of ALUMINUM (just like the aluminum casing used to keep portable hard drives cool) and its fans PULL/SUCK HOT AIR AWAY from underneath the laptop. This method of REMOVING hot air is superior to blowing room temperature air at the laptop (it's also the same mechanism used by laptop/desktop internal fans).
MY TESTS: I compared the latest Targus high-speed chill mat (Model PA248U) to this one. After running the laptop for one hour on each, I noticed the surface of the laptop (keyboard, palm rest, touch pad, etc.) was the same in both cases (very cool). But there was a noticeable difference on left side of my laptop (where my Dell's internal fan exhausts warm air). With the Targus, there was noticeable amounts of warm air being exhausted by the laptop's internal fan. With the Antec, there was much less warm air being exhausted than the Targus. So the Antec does a superior job cooling the laptop since the laptop's internal fan was exhausting less hot air.
MINOR DETAILS: The Antec allows you to control the speed of the fan (high or low) while the Targus is fixed, presumably at high (and is rather noisy). The Targus does have a simple push on/off switch; the Antec does not (you have to unplug it for off). The Antec's USB cord is pass-through meaning Antec will NOT take us one USB slot (the Targus did not have this feature). The Antec has a very strong Blue LED light to indicate it is on (it could be helpful as an on/off indicator, but it is very annoying in low-light condition because it is very bright).
BOTTOM LINE: Because the cooling surface is made of aluminum and because the fans work to draw hot air away from the laptop (much like your laptop's internal fan), Antec is a superior product. Also, my simple tests showed that the laptop was cooler using Antec.
Great Coolpad February 5, 2008
Katherine A. DAnna (Troy, NY USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I recently got this to replace my old Targus Coolpad. This one is a lot bigger than the Targus and fits very nicely under my powerbook 17" G4. I love the fact that it's USB powered and has two settings, so I can have it low when I'm just surfing the net and then high when I am playing games or movies.
The one drawback is the switch to toggle high and low is very hard to reach under a big laptop, my fingers almost don't reach it. Also, the LED light is very very bright, and so I end up unplugging it at night when I want to go to bed. It is seriously bright enough to make hand puppets with.
But overall, I think I am sticking with this Antec brand when it's time to buy a new one.
An amazing cooler! October 15, 2008
S. Stankovic (Seattle, WA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
My husband's laptop had issues with overheating (Dell Latitude D630 - 14") and I got him this cooler.
All computers (including laptops) need cooling - laptops are small/thin and there is not much space for fans... and that's where this unit comes handy.
What we noticed about this cooler:
- It's very light
- Aluminum top is great for spreading heat and keeping the laptop cool
- It's very quiet (on High you can bearly hear the sound of fans, and on Low you don't hear it at all)
- Cable is short so that it does not "dangle"; but not too short - it can reach at the back of laptop for USB connection. If you still can't reach USB connection on your laptop, because it's on the oposite side, you can always turn the cooler for 180 degrees so that connection on cooler comes to the right side (it's symetric, so it does not matter how you turn it).
- There is compartment for storing the cable when cooler is not in use
- Rubber on the bottom provides good grip - there is on slippage on wooden/glass surfaces
- It fits great on the lap
- Rubber on the top provides good grip - laptop is not slipping from the cooler
- Laptop fits great on this cooler (note that it's only 14" laptop).
- Cooler is quite thin and light so it's easy to put it in laptop bag and carry it with the laptop.
We like it very much, and we are going to get one more - for my laptop.
What I can say is that this is an amazing cooler and I do recommend it.
Alternate Use July 22, 2006
Orphie (Los Angeles)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
An online tech board's topic dealing with excessive heat eminating from the DishNetwork vip622 HD receiver/dvr combo pointed me to a sale on this Antec cooler.
As luck would have it, the Antec perfectly receives the four pads of the satellite box, which conveniently offers a USB port in which to plug the Antec.
Within hours, it appears to have dramatically cooled the satellite receiver/dvr combo that sits within component furniture.
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