Keep your laptop and lap cool

I normally don't do this, but for this gadget I felt that I had to do it. I recently bought a Targus Chill Mat against my regular buying habits just because it was on sale and was available for $9.99. I have an old Dell C400 laptop which has of late started to heat up significantly making it very inconvenient to use. I used to balk at the claims of the product manufacturers which say that the heat may burn your lap or degrade performance until I experienced one with my laptop. The laptop running Linux and my website (this one) had slowed down considerably. I didn't know what to do and how to improve the performance of the system. It is a P-III with 256 MB of RAM which was quite sufficient for me so far.

I thought it would be a long shot, but worth it considering the price was just $9.99 and bought it. My wife was more skeptical than me. The best part is it does not have any power requirement and it draws power from the source computer and it requires just 1.05W of power. To learn more of the specification click here. So now for just about a month I am using it and I have hardly seen the laptop's fan kick in for cooling and the laptop remains pretty much cold. I think I have to disconnect it for sometime to get it warm a little.

I now feel that this product is worth it's full price of 29.99 just for the fact that it cools down and protects your laptop. I have not seen major performance improvements, but again I don't use the laptop very regularly so I can't say for sure. But there is some performance improvement for sure. For most of the people with laptop computers, I would recommend purchasing this (or other similar) product and save yourself some breakdowns in the future.