Belkin F5L001 Laptop Cooling Stand | 
 enlarge | Brand: Belkin
Category: CE
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.89
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Rating:  158 reviews
Color: White
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 11.5 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: F5L001
Model: F5L001
UPC: 722868608654
EAN: 0722868608654
ASIN: B000NWIOM6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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Amazon.com Product Description
If you own a laptop, you know all about heat. Because today's notebooks rely on fast processors to do the job, they generate a lot of heat, with much of it landing directly in your lap. Some laptops can have a "normal" operating temperature as high as 120 degrees Fahrenheit! Not only is that unsafe and uncomfortable, it can also wear your laptop down, cause it to crash unexpectedly, and reduce its overall life expectancy. 
The Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand is designed to cradle your laptop in cooling comfort. | 
Now you can be more comfortable while you work. | 
A single high-capacity fan, which is powered by a USB port on your laptop, sits in the middle of the cooling stand. View larger. | 
Hot air is channeled out to the left and right sides of your laptop. View larger. | 
The USB cable is neatly tucked away in a storage compartment on the bottom. View larger. | Belkin's Laptop Cooling Stand relies on a patented wave design and ergonomic features that will not only help protect your laptop by keeping it cool, but will also increase your comfort while you work. As part of Belkin's laptop@home line of accessories, the Laptop Cooling Stand is designed to help you to take full advantage of the benefits your laptop has to offer-- comfortably, economically, and stylistically. Twice the Cooling Power, Half the Consumption
In contrast to most other laptop coolers that use two fans to suck warm air from the laptop's bottom, the Belkin's Laptop Cooling Stand relies on the natural flow of heat and air circulation to do the hard work and needs only one fan to do the trick. Instead of drawing the laptop heat down to push it out, the stand takes full advantage of natural air flow and heat's natural tendency to rise by pushing the hot air upward through the channel and away from your laptop. The single high-capacity fan, powered by a USB port on your laptop, sits in the middle of the cooling stand, and hot air is channeled out to the left and right sides of your laptop. The result is heat dissipation that's equal to a two-fan solution but that uses less than half the power. And because the fan is USB-powered, you won't have any bulky batteries or adapters (which can also both add heat!) to weigh you down. You simply place your laptop on the stand, pull the USB cable out of the convenient storage compartment, and plug it into your computer. The stand will take care of the rest. Computing in Comfort and Style
Measuring 12.6 x 11.6 x 1 inches (W x D x H), the Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand is designed for 15.4-inch or smaller laptops. To prevent slippage, the stand features rubber pads on the feet, and a small plastic panel folds out from the bottom of the stand that elevates the rear for better ergonomics. The gentle slope reduces wrist strain, and by raising the screen height, it also reduces neck strain that is common to laptop users. Unlike the industrial gray and metallic appearance of other cooling stands, the Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand offers an attractive, gently sloped look that you'll be proud to show off as you work. The stand's thin profile means that you can easily slide the stand into your notebook bag as you travel from meeting to meeting, or cafe to cafe. And weighing a mere 22 ounces, you'll hardly notice that it's in your bag.
Product Description
The Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand prevents your laptop from overheating. The unique patented wave design uses natural convection to enhance fan cooling. This stand has low power consumption via your laptop's USB port with no bulky power adapters.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 153 more reviews...
 I'm finally done looking for a laptop stand... November 20, 2008
John S. Dean (Sturtevant, WI United States)
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.
 Cheap -- works but keeps falling apart and buzzes November 18, 2008
G. Kinsey (Elk Grove, CA United States)
This cooling stand does its job but it is poorly constructed and badly designed. I use it only in an office so it has not been mis-treated. Its power socket has come loose twice (the second time I epoxied it in) and the fan assembly began to buzz loudly on start-up about a month after I bought it. Cleaning the fan, blowing it all out, has not fixed it. A sharp rap on the table (lifting assembly up and rapping it down) causes it to work quietly the rest of the day. At $20, it offers my hot laptop good protection, and noticeably cools it (compared to unplugging it and feeling the laptop 10 minutes later) but when it finally dies I won't get another one from Belkin, that's for sure.
Mixed Feelings November 17, 2008
Duk B. Im (LA, CA)
A bit noisy then I would have expected. Also, it does not fit my laptop too well. Check well with the dimentions before getting it.
 Great fit for a 15" Macbook Pro November 13, 2008
B. Christensen (Santa Barbara, CA United States)
Picked up one of these at Costco today for a bargain, and will be using it to replace a non-fan folding targus unit I have been using for years. Macbook Pros get really hot around the back of the case, and I have heard that this can dramatically reduce battery life.
The fan is obviously noisier than with no fan, but I would call it somewhat quieter than a typical laptop fan on "full cycle" but noisier than a laptop internal fan when in idle mode. (e.g. somewhere in the normal range of the noise a typical laptop makes). If you don't typically "max out" the CPU and processing capabilities of your laptop, you may find this fan (or any fan) adds a lot of noise to what you are used to.
Good Product that Works November 11, 2008
Alan Waldron (Clearwater Beach, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This review is for using Belkin F5L001 Laptop Cooling Stand with a 15" MacBook Pro. Results on other machine may vary. I have used this daily for about a month now.
I give this product 4 stars... It works well as long as it's not in a hot environment (nothing short of a mini air conditioner would work then). It effectively cools my MacBook Pro. I run XGR (X Resource Graph) to monitor the temperature across the 6 sensors in the MacBook Pro and I easily achieve at least a 10 F drop in temperature across each of them. Most of the time I get better than a 10 F drop. It depends on the room temperature.
The fan 'floats' in it's mount and can be jarred. When this happens it will make noise. Just tilt or lightly tap the unit to reset the fan and the fan will operate quietly again. No big deal. When operating correctly the fan is more noisy than my MacBook Pro but much, much quieter then my Dell 510 laptop. The noise is very minimal and I doubt there is one that could be any quieter, though I haven't tried any others.
A 15" MacBook Pro rests nicely on the non-skid pads. The unit can be used both on a desk or on a lap but the 'feet' in the back of the unit will become uncomfortable after prolonged usage on bare skin. It would be nice if you could attach a pad to them when using in your lap.
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