Antec Notebook Cooler base stand

Antec is one of my favorite cooling solutions manufacturer, offering products ranging from cases, power supplies to fans and cooling accessories like the Notebook Cooler, a surface with ventilation holes and two fans that blow cool air from beneath. Antec Notebook Cooler is not a laptop stand per say, because it’s not adjustable, but it raises your laptop by a few centimeters and that’s always good.

As construction goes, the case is made of plastic, while the top is from aluminum, not painted so that it keeps its silver looks. Two 80 mm fans are placed under and draw air from two special cut openings. Contact with table is made with the four feet placed at corners. A small switch adjusts speed of the two fans from Low to High so you can choose silence over cooling, depending on your usage scenario.

Nice shape for Antec Notebook Cooler

Power comes from a pass through USB cable stored in a small compartment under Antec Notebook Cooler so you can still use your USB gadgets, but remember that you won’t be able to power an external hard drive while also powering the two fans. A blue status LED let’s you know when the device is powered and when not.

From ergonomics point of view, there are no rubber stoppers to help make contact between the laptop and the cooling pad, as Antec relies on notebook’s own rubber feet to make contact. This is not a problem, mainly because rubber makes good contact with aluminum and the cooling pad is now inclined so there’s nothing to slip. Antec Notebook Cooler weights only 730 grams so it’s no burden to carry it around with you. Almost any size laptop will fit on it and two fans ensure good cooling even for hotter laptops like the lately Core i7 models.

It’s hard not to like the Antec Notebook Cooler, especially because it costs just 26$.

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