Belkin F5L001 Laptop Cooling Pad

Belkin F5L001 Laptop Cooling Pad

Brand : Belkin Model : F5L001

Overall Rating :

From : 334 Reviews

Color : White / Size :

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Technical Details

Patented wave design and high-capacity fan enhance cooling capabilities
Ergonomic features improve typing comfort and reduce wrist and neck strain
USB-powered; no bulky batteries or adapters necessary
Convenient storage compartment for USB cable when not in use
Measures 12.6 x 11.6 x 1 inches (W x D x H); weighs 22 ounces; Belkin lifetime warranty

Product Description

The Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand prevents your laptop from overheating. The unique patented wave design uses natural convection to enhance fan cooling. This stand has low power consumption via your laptop's USB port with no bulky power adapters.

If you own a laptop, you know all about heat. Because today's notebooks rely on fast processors to do the job, they generate a lot of heat, with much of it landing directly in your lap. Some laptops can have a "normal" operating temperature as high as 120 degrees Fahrenheit! Not only is that unsafe and uncomfortable, it can also wear your laptop down, cause it to crash unexpectedly, and reduce its overall life expectancy.

The Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand is designed to cradle your laptop in cooling comfort.

Now you can be more comfortable while you work.

A single high-capacity fan, which is powered by a USB port on your laptop, sits in the middle of the cooling stand. View larger.

Hot air is channeled out to the left and right sides of your laptop. View larger.

The USB cable is neatly tucked away in a storage compartment on the bottom. View larger.

Belkin's Laptop Cooling Stand relies on a patented wave design and ergonomic features that will not only help protect your laptop by keeping it cool, but will also increase your comfort while you work. As part of Belkin's laptop@home line of accessories, the Laptop Cooling Stand is designed to help you to take full advantage of the benefits your laptop has to offer-- comfortably, economically, and stylistically.

Twice the Cooling Power, Half the Consumption
In contrast to most other laptop coolers that use two fans to suck warm air from the laptop's bottom, the Belkin's Laptop Cooling Stand relies on the natural flow of heat and air circulation to do the hard work and needs only one fan to do the trick. Instead of drawing the laptop heat down to push it out, the stand takes full advantage of natural air flow and heat's natural tendency to rise by pushing the hot air upward through the channel and away from your laptop.

The single high-capacity fan, powered by a USB port on your laptop, sits in the middle of the cooling stand, and hot air is channeled out to the left and right sides of your laptop. The result is heat dissipation that's equal to a two-fan solution but that uses less than half the power. And because the fan is USB-powered, you won't have any bulky batteries or adapters (which can also both add heat!) to weigh you down. You simply place your laptop on the stand, pull the USB cable out of the convenient storage compartment, and plug it into your computer. The stand will take care of the rest.

Computing in Comfort and Style
Measuring 12.6 x 11.6 x 1 inches (W x D x H), the Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand is designed for 15.4-inch or smaller laptops. To prevent slippage, the stand features rubber pads on the feet, and a small plastic panel folds out from the bottom of the stand that elevates the rear for better ergonomics. The gentle slope reduces wrist strain, and by raising the screen height, it also reduces neck strain that is common to laptop users.

Unlike the industrial gray and metallic appearance of other cooling stands, the Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand offers an attractive, gently sloped look that you'll be proud to show off as you work. The stand's thin profile means that you can easily slide the stand into your notebook bag as you travel from meeting to meeting, or café to café. And weighing a mere 22 ounces, you'll hardly notice that it's in your bag.

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Customer Reviews (see all-reviews)

C. R. Diaz

The stand legs broke two timw

I have this stand for 8 months, I only used to work on a table and over my bed when working at night, the fan is very efficient and quiet but the supporting legs are weak and they broke by the fourth month I used it, I could stick them together with crazy glue and work well until today, the problem seems to be that the legs are too thin and this makes a weak zone that tends to break after a long time you take it to one place to another.

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Emily B. Philip

Piece of Junk

This laptop cooler was fine for the price when I got it. But I've only had it for about two months and it's just totally quit on me! What a piece of junk!

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Xolo ( S. California, USA )

WASTE OF MONEY

We bought this about 5 months ago, it started having noisy bouts after about 3 months. It has been nothing but a source of frustration since then. We clean it, spray, you name it we've tried it. If these types of devices don't hold up well I see no reason to buy an expensive one. We just got our new one today,also from Amazon, a Syba with a huge fan for less than half what we paid for the Belkin, wow what a difference it's REALLY quiet and is in no way wobbly which was another problem with the Belkin. My advice is don't bother with this product, check out the Syba.

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M. Allen ( Seward, Alaska )

Worked well....... until it stopped.

I bought this less than five months ago. It worked really well for about 3 months. The legs eventually broke off, leaving me to prop it up using whatever book or coaster that was available to keep the airflow moving. Shortly after that the fan became very noisy and only worked for a few minutes, stopped, and then became noisy again. Finally, the fan just quit working all together. The fan itself, when it worked, was great. My notebook overheats very easy and this did the trick in keeping it very cool. Overall, I would not buy this product again due to the poor design and structure of the legs and fan. Maybe I just got a lemon?

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Oscar Wilde

Not loud, but unreliable.

I've owned this laptop cooler for exactly one year, two months, and 12 days (as of my birthday last year), and a few days ago it finally gave up the ghost and stopped working altogether. In its youth, though, it did a great job of cooling my mammoth of a laptop and withstanding my abuse, but there are a couple of design flaws that may restrict how you use it.

The flip stand thing is a nightmare. It is supposed to prop the cooler up at a slight angle to provide better ventilation, I guess, but it's flimsy and tends to slam shut if you adjust the stand's position without holding it, making the stand collapse loudly. And the stand is not optional; without it, the cooler wobbles around unsteadily.

The fan is also located at the bottom of the concave pad and is covered by a small (and inadequate, in my opinion) grate, which makes it impractical for lap use because the fan would be practically whirring in your lap. If you do put it on your lap with the fan running, you run the risk of the fan catching hair, fabric, etc and clogging and/or stopping the fan altogether. I have long hair and I can attest to the nasty process of removing hairballs from the fan every month or so. So if you use this, it's better to put it on a hard, mostly even surface. Not cool since it stops you from using your laptop on your lap.

It doesn't work about 1/30 of the time. After the first 6 months of use, it would either sporadically not start or make a loud, embarrassing rattling noise before dying. Then after a random period of time (usually a day) it would work fine again. The unreliability was a problem.

I personally didn't think the fan was loud at all (It made a quiet whirring sound, although too loud for quiet library use), and I didn't have connectivity issues.

Overall, it cooled my 17inch Dell very well and I would recommend this for people who need a laptop cooler for a home office. If you would like the option of using it on your bed, in your lap, or in very quiet places like the library, I would advise you look elsewhere.

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