If your laptop is hot enough to need this, get it fixed. Don't support band-aid products like this. The product needs to be designed and properly manufactured so that we don't have to have add-ons like this to work properly.
I bought an early MacBook Pro and it was hot as hell. I had a few options but I decided to open it up and reapply the thermal paste. Now it's as cool as it was designed to be. There are also software solutions to make the fan turn on sooner which reportedly keeps the machine much cooler.
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“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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If your laptop is hot enough to need this, get it fixed. Don't support band-aid products like this. The product needs to be designed and properly manufactured so that we don't have to have add-ons like this to work properly.
I bought an early MacBook Pro and it was hot as hell. I had a few options but I decided to open it up and reapply the thermal paste. Now it's as cool as it was designed to be. There are also software solutions to make the fan turn on sooner which reportedly keeps the machine much cooler.