Cooler Master NotePal X-Slim Ultra-Slim Laptop Cooling Pad with 160mm Fan (R9-NBC-XSLI-GP),Black X-Slim

It does exactly what I bought it for. My 15" laptop overheats a lot, as I haven't yet changed the likely melted cooling pad around the processor. Add to that the fact that I often put the laptop on my lap in bed, therefore it's also on top of a blanket, and you can imagine how hot it gets. The cooling pad has so far worked very well; it's kept the laptop cool whether I place it on a desk or on my lap. It's fairly quiet - it's quieter than my laptop when overheating, at any rate. It's extremely light, so much so to the point where I'm not even sure it's 1.4 lbs as the manufacturer states. It feels as light as a feather. If you want a good pad, I would highly recommend this one. I have yet to test it while playing a video game, as that uses the most processing power, so if the pad can successfully keep it cool through that, it would be amazing. So far the most I've used it with is playing movies, and it's been perfect through that, so I have high expectations and hopes for the gaming test. I've also left it on for many many hours at a time and it was fine. I've seen other reviewers mention that it's cheaply built and parts around the USB have broken. I haven't had it very long at this point, just two weeks, so nothing has broken yet. TL;DR: Pros: - light - can be placed anywhere, on fabric or on a desk, and still works - successfully cools an extremely hot laptop - doesn't take up a USB spot as it replaces the one it uses with a port of its own - works fine with extended periods of time Cons: - You have to be careful how you hold it if you're transporting it while its running, as it is a little flimsy so if you hold it in the wrong area, it will push the top part of the plastic (where your laptop is sitting) down and into the fan, creating an absolutely horrible noise, and that could also break the fan.

This item just arrived today. I had bought a different brand of laptop cooler from Amazon about a year and a half ago. Like this product, it had several hundred reviews and like this was also rated very high (about 4 1/2 stars overall). I tried to look for it but it appears that it's not available at Amazon anymore. I wasn't looking for because I wanted to buy another one. Quite the contrary I wanted to insert a product link and advise people NOT to buy it. It was much heavier and uncomfortable when sitting directly on my lap than this Cooler Master is. I've just plugged this in and right now am sitting in my recliner with the cooling pad in place. I'm truly amazed at how quiet the fan is and how comfortable it is. What's really great about it is that it's so thin that I can barely tell anything's added onto my laptop but it is working well. I know because I happen to be wearing shorts right now as I'm writing this review and it's literally cooling my legs! Another nice, and I think pretty common feature, is that while the cooler runs by plugging it into a USB port, you don't lose a port because the back of the USB plug that goes into the laptop is a USB slot and it works! I have a Canon CanoScan 4507B002 LiDE110 Color Image Scanner that I plugged into it and it immediately recognized and powered it. The scanner is powered solely by the computer's power through USB (i.e., it doesn't plug into a standard household AC power outlet) so the replacement port provided with this laptop cooler is a powered one. That wasn't the case with the previous laptop cooler I had. It did provide an additional USB port but it was not powered so it's use was limited. I have a Dell Inspiron N7010 (17R) laptop that I bought at Costco about two years ago maybe even three years ago, I don't remember for sure. I run Windows 7 Ultimate on it and absolutely love it because the monitor is outstanding High Definition but it runs HOT!!! Just a couple of weeks ago I bought a Crucial m4 512GB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s with Data Transfer Kit CT512M4SSD2CCA for it to replace the original traditional hard drive that came with the computer and upgraded the RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB by buying two Kingston Technology 4 GB (1x4 GB Module) 1333MHz DDR3 PC3-10600 204-Pin SODIMM Memory for Select Dell Notebooks KTD-L3B/4G and taking out the two 2 GB RAM cards that came with the PC. All I can tell you is WOW, this computer is now a screamer. It's as though I bought a brand new computer that's running 10 times faster than the old one but paid 1/3rd the price of what I would have paid for a comparable new one. Indeed, it would be difficult to buy a comparable new one now because most upper end new Windows laptops are coming packaged with Windows 8. Getting off track there sorry. I thought that replacing the traditional hard drive with the Solid State Drive might help the laptop not run so darn hot, but it didn't make a difference. I don't know, maybe the extra RAM offset it. But it still runs really hot. I am extremely pleased with this cooler. It's simply the most comfortable laptop cooler I could ever imagine and if it continues to work a year from now as well as it's working right now, then, I think, like the New SSD & new RAM i just bought, it will one of the best laptop accessories I've purchased. Fear not though friends: if things go south (i.e., if this stops working as it should) I will come back and revise my review accordingly. One other thing to note: keep a price check on these items. I ordered this laptop cooler on 3/24/2013 for $20.99 from a merchant called "LLYtech" and it was "Fulfilled by Amazon" so because I'm an Amazon Prime customer I got free two day shipping. At the time of this writing (3/27/13) it's selling from a merchant named "Galactics" for $21.01 and is not currently Fulfilled by Amazon though the merchant is offering free shipping but it won't be two day shipping. I also checked and Galactics is a highly rated merchant (4.8 stars over the past 12 months with 47,000+ ratings). I'm always more comfortable buying products that are "Fulfilled by Amazon" though because if there are any problems at all with the order I deal directly with Amazon and not the merchant to resolve them. Furthermore, the return policies for merchants that use Fulfilled by Amazon are identical to Amazon's so that provides peace of mind, especially for electronics. If this thing arrived Dead on Arrival a simple call, chat, or e-mail to Amazon an I'd have a return UPS label immediately and they automatically arrange for UPS to pick it up from you. In summary, unless you hear back from me to the contrary, you can buy this laptop cooler with confidence.

So I just purchased this on Amazon, and wow, did it ship quickly! Two days and it was here. Not bad for free standard shipping! Anyway, after extensive research on different laptop cooling pads, and with a limited budget, I decided to give the Cooler Master Notepal X-Slim a go. I mean, for $15, and considering that cheaper Chinese models on eBay were running about half the price anyway, I figured why not. PROS: - It works! My CPU has had a lot of issues maintaining its core temperature (during gaming it would spike up to 101 degrees C!!), and this has definitely helped. My computer runs on average 10-15 C cooler with the X-Slim, and even after running games at maximum load, the temp has yet to breach the 90s. The pad provides lots of ventilation for your computer. So good job, Cooler Master! - For the money, build quality is actually quite good! I was really fearful since this was a budget model, and after reading a lot of reviews here, this was one of my biggest concerns. The USB connector aside (see con section), the build quality was solid. I definitely feel comfortable picking it up and moving it. The mesh front is quite solid, and the pad's rubber feet do a great job of stabilizing the computer against a desk or flat surface. (Just don't slide the pad/your computer backwards or the rear feet will close on you!) CONS: - The USB connector was loose. I mean, it works fine, and the USB passthrough also functions well. It's just a bit wobbly and doesn't feel tight at all. Also, the length of the cord is a bit longer than what it should be - on the back of the pad, there are grooves and a winder plus a little storage thing for the USB connector so as to provide cable management and keep them out of the way. Only problem is, the cable was about an inch too long, so even if you wrap it according to the winders, etc, a bit of cable hangs out. Not too big of a problem, and you can play around with it and make it work. - Not exactly "silent" as is advertised on the box. I don't know if it was my pad in particular, but it was a touch louder than I had imagined. I watched some review videos where this was plugged in and you couldn't hear the fan, but it is definitely noticeable for me. Oh well, not a deal-killer. OTHER COMMENTS: - I would have liked to see some rubber pads or something on the front side, so as to prevent the computer from sliding off. However! The grading once the rear feet are flipped up is very slight, and it is unlikely that a computer would slide off anyway unless it was quite heavy. Plus, many laptops have rubber feet on the bottom anyway, which is enough to keep it from sliding off. The only thing I might tell you to be wary of is that if you have a large laptop (probably anything greater than a 15.6"), that you should be aware that your laptop will hang over the sides, so just check the placement of the rubber feet on the bottom of your computer to make sure that they will be in contact with the pad. So, overall, a great buy for $15! It is quite effective, and I would recommend it for anyone looking for a solid entry-level cooling pad.

I am, frankly, astonished at the quality of NotePal X-Slim. I spent $20 on a cooling pad a few months ago at Best Buy and after a few months of having to place my laptop on it in the right position to allow somewhat decent ventilation, I came to Amazon (once again) to find something that would do at least a decent job of cooling my Satellite while gaming. Cooler Master NotePal X-Slim arrived at my doorstep today and I can't be happier with a cooling pad. I've owned several from Belkin to Targus and onward, and the X-Slim is the most functional and effective cooling pad I've ever owned--and at almost half the money I've spent on any other cooling pad. My laptop, near the track pad, normally warms from the transfer of heat through my wrist and hand. My laptop has been 15 degrees cooler, even outside of gaming use, and remained completely cool to the touch since I plugged this into the USB port. If I lift my wrist from near the track pad, it's cooled back to room temperature within seconds. Even better, the pass-through USB port allows me to connect my wireless mouse and not lose another USB port to yet another device that makes using my laptop more convenient at my desk. The mesh on this cooling pad guarantees ventilation no matter where you place your laptop on it, saving me the guessing game of getting it in that "just right" position to get any benefit from using a cooling pad. The only drawback I've noticed is the in the cord itself. The power line sticks out from the side of the USB plug, which can obscure access to nearby ports. On the other hand, you can also move the cord to the opposite side of the device if plugging it into any nearby port may obscure ports you want access to. In general, this is a great product at a cutthroat price. And you don't have to take just my word for it: There are dozens of other rave reviews about the NotePal X-Slim here on Amazon and across the web. You have nothing to lose but the heat emanating from your laptop if you purchase this cooling pad.

My laptop is the HP Envy-14 Beats Edition (model number 1260se)and it's been giving me problems with overheating for months now. I sent it back to HP for repairs, and they returned it without doing ANYTHING to fix the problem. (Thanks, HP...) Then my warranty was over almost immediately so I couldn't even yell at them to fix it. I had been using CoreTemp to measure the temperature of my CPU, and it usually hovered around the high 70s/low 80s Celsius when it was idle, and it passed 85 Celsius under half load. I don't even know what it would have done under full load, since it crashed somewhere around 85 every time. Even before it got this bad (i.e. bad enough that I couldn't bring it past half load) I would burn my fingers whenever I played a game. So I started looking at cooling pads. I wasn't 100% sure a cooling pad would do anything, since the air intakes are on the back of the laptop and the fan is on the right side. (I did later find hidden documentation on HP's website stating that there are vents on the bottom to make a cooling pad useful in just this kind of situation, though! I wish they had TOLD me that when I sent them the computer...) Looking at cooling pads, I began to get irritated for a couple of reasons. For one thing, every product seemed to be bragging about supporting 17" laptops. I have a 14-inch laptop with a 14.5-inch wide screen, and I didn't want something sticking out a lot around my computer! Also, almost every product seemed like it forces the user to have their computer on a slant. I will NEVER understand people's obsession with having keyboards on a slant. All slanting has done for me is give me carpal tunnel. When I use a keyboard for a desktop computer, I ALWAYS un-slant it, and I didn't want my laptop to be slanted without the possibility of un-slanting it! This cooling pad fixes everything. Despite the fact that it does claim to be able to support a 17-inch computer, it sticks out less than an inch on each side of my 14-inch computer. And it is NOT slanty, which I really really appreciate. And, most importantly, it fixes the overheating problem. At rest, my CPU is now around 55 degrees Celsius, and at half load I haven't seen it pass 72 Celsius. These numbers are MUCH more similar to what other owners of this same laptop have posted on forums. I don't know why mine was hotter to begin with, and I don't know why HP didn't fix it or at least give me advice, but at least now I can use my computer again without worrying about it crashing. I haven't tested it yet under full load (i.e. gaming or video editing) but I will try to remember to update this review once I do. :) UPDATE (8.19.12): This probably still doesn't REALLY count as full load, but I was playing Minecraft multiplayer last night and I decided to open up CoreTemp. I left it open for a few minutes while I played, and when I checked it again, the max temperatures were 76 and 78 Celsius. So that's pretty impressive, especially considering that those were my idle temperatures before. Hooray! :D UPDATE 2 (11.18.13): Over a year later, it's still working great. It got a little dusty at one point but I cleaned it out with a can of compressed air. My computer has not crashed once since I started using the cooling pad, and my CoreTemp values are still consistently much lower than they were without the cooling pad.

Pretty disappointed in the air flow. I'll give it three stars because it was cheap and moves air, all it said it would do. I like the slim design, and the fan is quiet, but it doesn't move much air in my opinion. Maybe that's the tradeoff. Looks nice and is the perfect size for an Asus TUF F15, but is very light air movement when holding my hand above it, and has made no appreciable difference to CPU temperatures even with new Cryofuze paste throughout. This laptop has known heat issues and the intake fans are off center and it could use more vents, so I'll give the cooling pad some slack, but it didn't do anything for me. Laptop is still frequently throttling at 95 to 100 C under heavy load. Update after buying a GT600v1: yep, get what we pay for with these. The GT600v1 was $83 even on sale, but it immediately made about a -15C difference in general use and the laptop now barely goes above 90 C even on sustained hard load. It's also much louder than the Cooler Master, as we should expect, but it absolutely does the job.

I often use my laptop sitting in bed, and of course, that totally blocks off the air vents on the bottom. I looked at a bunch of cooling pads before finding this one, trouble is, most other ones are only meant for desk use. So many others are setup in a way that would get bunched up or totally blocked off by sitting on top of a blanket. Before I found this, I actually bought a Targus Lap Chill Mat Jr for 15.6" Laptops- AWE73US (Silver/Gray) . I returned that one because while it had the perfect shape, it just hardly moved any air at all. This cooler is totally perfect... it has air vents all around the bottom and the sides, so even if the bottom gets blocked (like by a blanket) it still pulls in plenty of air from the side. It's actually so open all around, that it really could even be a good passive cooler, if you just trying to free up the vents. But the fan is huge, and it totally moves a ton of air. You can actually feel cool air blowing out from between the laptop and the frame. Actually, sitting in bed with the laptop/cooler on my lap, it actually chills me a bit through my pajamas! Not really a con... but a little unexpected It's definitely not silent. If I'm playing a game or some music, it gets drowned out easily. But once I turn the sounds off, then you can really hear the fan pumping out all that air. It might be nice if it were adjustable, so at least you could turn it down without having to unplug it. My Sony VAIO normally runs around 51-52 celcius at idle, and playing games usually gets it to around to 64-65ish. Ive seen it get as high as 75 if I have no cooler and the bottom vents get blocked. With the cooler on, idle actually doesn't change at all (I guess the built in fan does a good enough job already?) but the fan does drop the load temps significantly! About a 10 degree drop while gaming. The USB cord is ambidextrous, it can be run easily to either side. I think the plug is way too big, but whatever, I'll live with that considering everything this has going for it. Some people might wish it had a couple extra USB ports built in, but for me, I don't even use all the ones I have already anyhow, so it doesn't bother me. I love it. If you're like me, and looking for a laptop cooling pad you can actually use on your lap... this is totally perfect.

I bought the X-Slim at a decent price ($25) vs spending more money for higher end models. Came as advertised and works fine. With all the Zoom/Webex/etc video meetings while working with other applications across 2 displays my laptop was getting hot - the fan running a lot and system emitting an occasional electronic whine. So I bought a cooling mat to help keep the system cooler and lower the fan noise. For that reason I picked one with a large quiet fan. My setup is with my laptop attached to a docking box on the middle shelf of a 3 layer table (printer is on top), so it sits about 3 feet from me and 2 feet below my head. I have not used the mat yet when sitting on a bed, etc. After 3 days of use my report is: - the system seem to run 3-4 degrees C cooler when under load and when hits higher peaks the peaks are not as high - I am using a free-ware tool to monitor temp - the fan on the mat itself is quiet but still noticeable - I guess slightly quieter than the laptop fan when hot - the fan turns at a fairly high rpm and there is some vibration from the fan running - when I don't have the chill mat fan on, the laptop seems to run about 1 degree C cooler - I believe from being raised up on a mesh platform to allow more airflow Due to the fan noise and the vibration, I do not use it all of the time - it is simple enough to plug in and take out the USB connector. So the 4 stars. In hindsight I would have spent more money on a mat that has the following features: - variable fan speed - to lower fan noise and vibration when not under max load - on/off switch - easy turn on/off without having to remove and reinsert USB connector I will be buying some sound damping material to make a 3 sided box around the laptop to lower the noise further. The chill mat will help keep laptop cool when in this partial enclosure.

Conforme à la description. Il est en effet peu bruyant et convient parfaitement à un portable 17". Le gain en température est de quelques degrés, 4~5°C dans mon cas. Mais vu que j'atteignais le Tjmax de 100°C avec pour conséquence un ventilo de portable extrêmement bruyant et des shutdowns intempestifs, j'ai finalement pris le taureau par les cornes. Après démontage du portable pour nettoyer le ventilateur bien encrassé de poussière, le CPU ainsi que le processeur graphique, et enfin après changement de la pate thermique qui avait fini par sécher, j'ai atteint un gain de quasiment 40°C!!! Aujourd'hui avec le Cooler Master, la T° de mon CPU varie entre 48° et 62° pour une utilisation poussée. Maintenant, je ne donne que 4* pour 2 raisons: 1/ Le coté connecteur USB femelle est vraiment mal conçu. La partie métallique est coupante et on a vite fait de s'y accrocher. Il aurait mieux valu faire comme les marques concurrentes et injecter du plastique tout autour de ce connecteur USB femelle. Pour solutionner le problème, le mieux reste une gaine thermo-rétractable épaisse... 2/ Produit acheté sur Amazon.fr au prix de 30.36€TTC le 20/03/2015 alors qu'il est vendu à moins de 17,00$ aux USA, y compris sur Amazon.com... Aujourd'hui (18/04/2015) Amazon.fr le propose à 26,04€TTC, donc pas de quoi être très content de cette politique tarifaire pour un produit fabriqué en Chine...

Love this cooling pad works really well

I have a HP Elitebook 800 G1 and used to have a cheaper cooling system but since purchasing a docking station and HD monitor the heat of the laptop against the desk has been concerning, this pad is genius and I am in shock nobody has developed a cooling system for docked laptops but this pad allows you to set it flat so its comfortably fits both laptop and docking station. Excellent

Works, fan is quiet, and laptop isn't heating as much anymore. :)

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