From: Rich Gauszka 

 From the reviews I've seen the Lapinator appears to be for those who
use their notebooks resting on their laps and have a strong desire to keep
their legs cool and sperm count high. I use my notebook on a table and am
more concerned with heat inside generated inside the notebook.




mike wrote:
> I use a passive cooler for my Dell notebook.
> httpt ://www.lapinator.com/
>
>  /m
>
> 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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