From: mike 


I use a passive cooler for my Dell notebook. http://www.lapinator.com/

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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:04:01 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>I am smiling a bit more now that I have a notebook that can read email in
>text mode without being compromised
>
>The cooler that gave me the shutdown trouble was the Lian Li.
>
>I did try another notebook cooler - Vantec LapCool. It also has an
>adjustment to have your laptop on a slope. Unfortunately  the surface of the
>cooler is so slick that the notebook will slide off it. It should have been
>named the Vantec Slide Cool.
>
>The Vantec did have an external power unit but for some reason I couldn't
>get Vantec's usb hub/card reader to work with the Macbook. It worked fine
>with my Sony Vaio notebook. Other usb hubs and card readers appear to work
>fine with the Macbook. I haven't seen a usb problem like this since the
>early years of usb.
>
>
>
>"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
>news:46112349{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >It hasn't shut down since I disconnected the notebook cooler's fans from
>> >the Macbook usb port.
>>
>> Pardon my schadenfreude.  Shutting down one's notebook with a cooler
>> designed to preserve it does have a hugely comic aspect to it.
>>
>> (...having done that and worse.  I trust we're laughing together.)
>>
>> Don't I remember that early Mac laptops (?Wall Street) were famous for
>> costing you $800 for a replacement motherboard and $300 for labor if you
>> were foolish enough to overstress the unfused firewire port?
>>
>>
>

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