Xpad (Non-slip Laptop Cooler and Heatshield)
- LAPTOP COOLER: Xpad cools your laptop without using fans by up to 30 degrees
- LAPTOP HEATSHIELD: Xpad shields your lap from laptop heat by up to 60 degrees
- NON-SLIP LAPTOP PAD: Smart non-slip interfaces secures your laptop on your lap for various sitting angles
- PORTABLE DESIGN: Strong, lightweight, and slim design for maximum portability
- UNIVERSAL FIT: ‘X’ pattern risers will accomodate most laptops up to 15″ screen size (see Xpad Slim for larger laptops)
Xpad is the original patented passive laptop cooler and heat shield that beat out fan based coolers on Cnet review No Fans! 100% Passive Cooling – Cool your laptop and your lap silently without having to use up a USB port to power a fan Universal Fit for up to 15″ Laptops (see Xpad Slim for larger laptops)Lightweight design fits in your laptop bag with your laptop Non-slip design grips your laptop so that it stays place even when you don’t Laptop Heatshield Laptop heat can be terrible for health – espe
List Price: $ 35.00
Price: $ 20.95
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Don’t use my laptop without it. Period.,
I’ve had this for about as long as I’ve had my laptop (a new model is out and it’s $200 cheaper so that makes it what… about a year?) and I like it. It fits my 14″ just fine and could probably fit a 15″ too. It’s the exact same width as my laptop and about 1 inch longer, which is ideal because a small bit of slack forward & back keeps it on your lap even when it slides just a bit (more on that later).
When used with a desk, it keeps it up and away from the desk and simply provides more air below the laptop where the fans are. One of the “X” pads are directly below the hard drive, so it probably doesn’t get as much ventilation as it could, but still more than if the xpad wasn’t involved.
As something you keep on your lap, it works fantastic too. The bottom side has an nearly denim like feel to it and keeps everything relatively stable and things don’t slide around except at the most extreme angles – the laptop will start to slip at, say, greater than 30 degrees away from you (the monitor half being heavy and towards the bottom – it’s just not excellent) or 45 degrees towards you (which is how I sometimes keep it if I’m lying in bed with it propped up between my stomach and one of my legs). If I were to redesign it, I’d texture the rubber X pads on the top (they’re pretty smooth) so as to add just a touch more grip, but that’s a very minor quibble – really at the angles I’m talking about, gravity just has to take over.
It’s made of some sort of plastic and foam, and I was really surprised with how light-weight it was. It’s also thin enough to take with you in a laptop bag. If the laptop is running really hot, the bottom will get one or two degrees warmer, but not at all hot and certainly nothing that would make you sterile (read the tales on the internet, it happens).
All in all, this is a fantastic product and doesn’t pull any power from your USB or have any areas where you can’t place your leg because there’s a fan there. My girlfriend is getting a laptop soon and we’ll certainly get one for her too.
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|xpad for MacBook Pro,
Fantastic solution. Lightweight, and dramatic difference. The heat from my MacBook Pro was intense. I’ve had other laptops before, but nothing came close to the heat from my Apple. Every couple hours I would have to shut it down to let it cool off, or place it on the granite countertop in my kitchen to absorb the heat. The typical plastic laptop pads didn’t absorb the heat. I even pulled out a spare tile of stone from the outdoor countertop we installed to use as a laptop pad, but this was a heavy and ridiculous solution. The Xpad was much more affordable, and I liked that it didn’t need to plug into my laptop to run additional fans.
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|Simple thought, worth the money,
I bought this after receiving my Macbook 13″. I read the online reviews and thought I would give it a try. For me it works well with my needs. First, it surely keeps my lap cooler, though I am not really sure about the actual laptop temp. It is ergonomic, being pretty non-intrusive and not having to adapt to an extremely odd wrist/hand angle. My laptop never slips, even when I angle my legs! It is very light and travels extremely well and does not use up your battery. I also have one with fans, the Vantech or Vanguard, which of course does lower the temp, but sucks up the battery, plus seems to be very fragile, and my laptop slips off of it often. I would recommend this item to others, though I would hope the price of this extremely simple unit would go down, but at around $17, I would pay that again.
My rating for the product is a 5 star, but it losses one star from me for the cost being higher than what I believe it should be, considering manufacturing and material cost. I would imagine the cost would go down eventually.
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