Vent on bottom, no clearance

Johnny Bitte

Hi all,
Have new laptop here which I m very happy with except one thing.
The vent is on the bottom and there is no room between itself and the surface its placed on!!!
Theres no clips to raise it up a little.

Just wanted to ask if anyone has come across this and and come up with any solutions to it???

Its a HP Pavilion

wingnut

Tescos and PC world do laptop trays which will do the job of providing vents. Apparently laptops are being names as a leading cause of infertility due to gonad heating. I got mine in Tescos in the Uk for a tenner:

Ghost Train

is that true about the gonads? *moves laptop to safer position*

could get some rubber feet or something http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/55-piece-SELF-ADHESIVE-SOFT-RUBBER-ANTI-SCUFF-FEET-PADS_W0QQitemZ230167284523QQihZ013QQcategoryZ20600QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem to raise the laptop up

also have you looked in the manual to see what it says about cooling and how it expects you to keep the vent unblocked

Having vents on the base is one thing I hate about a lot of laptop designs

Kintarō Hattori

You could pick up something like the following:

Zalman Laptop Cooler
http://www.i-tech.com.au/Library/Image/Product/c_1158029817_1.jpg

Logitech Alto Laptop Dock
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/logitech_alto-thumb.jpg

Johnny Bitte

wingnut wrote:

Tescos and PC world do laptop trays which will do the job of providing vents. Apparently laptops are being names as a leading cause of infertility due to gonad heating. I got mine in Tescos in the Uk for a tenner:

Ha ha ha gonads.

Anyway i was thinking of trying to get larger rubber feet for the bottom.
Seems to a serious flaw, really heats up.

wingnut

100% true:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4078895.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4078895.stm