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General discussion

keeping notebooks cool

Jan 12, 2005 11:36AM PST

Hi, although this is a very general question, i hope everyone can contribute some ideas. I have a 1.8 Ghz notebook running at full speed, and it generates heat of more than 65 degrees Celsius or 149 F. Is there any efficient way to keep my cpu cool so that it won't die off too soon? Any idea is appreciated.

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Targus Cool Pad.
Jan 13, 2005 9:34AM PST

I bought a Targus Cool Pad from Best Buy at Christmas. Your notebook powers it, which is rough on battery life but not too bad. It comes with a USB cable you plug into your notebook that powers two fans. Your notebook sits on top. It does seem to pull some heat from my notebook, Toshiba S35 M320 15.4" screen. I rarely use mine more than 3 hours at a time. Not a bad buy for 25.00 bucks. Good Luck.

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Coolpads and Toshiba M35S320
Jan 13, 2005 10:31AM PST

The model referenced above by Fishhatch is the Toshiba M35 S320 not the other way around (not S35 M320)

This model was before Toshiba Trubrite and also had a Banias Pentium M 1.5 with 1mb L2 system cache (before the Dothan Pentium M's were released in June 2004 with 2mb L2 system cache).

These had dedicated RAM back then (either 32mb or 64mb dedicated Nvidia) and I heavily considered it but this was quite warm around the touchpad area and note that Toshiba had higher rubber feet in back to allow more airflow. Also the fan runs on this model quite a bit.

The HPZT3000/Compaq X1000 I got is very similar (same 15.4" widescreen Pentium M) but it was 6.5 pounds to the Toshibas 6.2 pounds.

I use the Targus Podium Coolpad (same price as above) which does not plug into USB and does not use battery life - rather it just raises the notebook up to 2 inches in back (height is adjustable to 3 levels) and I mainly value it for the sloped keyboard angle like a desktop keyboard.

The Toshiba M35X's out now at retail do not have dedicated video RAM (shared) but supposedly M30 models ordered custom from Toshiba can still be ordered with Dedicated video.

Someone from Europe recently posted a Toshiba M30 spec with the ATI 9700 with 64mb dedicated RAM which is outstanding but again in the US at retail this is not the case