You can pick up a cooling fan for a couple bucks...they actually work pretty well. This is a fancy one - but you can buy them anywhere cheap and they do work!
@FairyGirlGemma I've had the same one that's outlasted 3 laptops....and if anyone ever asks "did you get into some kind of computer nerd talk with FG Gemma"...I'll deny it! :) Have a great weekend!
@luctoretemergo In my experience (but I suppose it varies from laptop to laptop) those things do little in terms of lowering the internal temperature. Sure the bottom feels cooler at touch but in general if you have overheating issues (like abrupt shutdowns, or in modern machines, performance loss) those usually don't help much.
On the other hand, as hilarious as it may sound, with my current laptop all I needed to fix the overheating issues was a simple 0.70€ eraser cut in four pieces
well you cant put it on the top cause the keyboard is there. if you put it on the sides then the laptop has to be bigger to alow airflow. I think they expect customers to use them certain way. Like keep it on a flat, dry surface.
@SW-User Yeah but there's the sides! Could suck air in one side and blow it out the other, or the back no?
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@FairyGirlGemma it would require making an air tube taking the whole width of the laptop to pass it from one side to the other! 🤔 That can be an inefficient use of the volume inside the laptop unless the cross-sectional area of that tube is very little, but that wouldn't be efficient for cooling soo... 🤷♂️
@AntisocialTroll That's about how long i get out of mine and yeah I think it's the heat. This one is about a year old now, so it's time for me to start saving up for a new one, so when this dies it's not an unexpected bill like when my last one packed up - or maybe get a refurbed better model? The bit of the case where the hinge fits on has cracked so I'm not confident it'll last too long 😱 I'll give the stand a go though, it can't hurt!!
@FairyGirlGemma I'm always a bit wary of refurbished stuff unless I know the previous owner, I worry it'll die a day after the 3 or 6 month warranty runs out as I've had that happen on the only 2 refurbs I've had! So since then I've always gone for an el cheapo jobby instead and now try to always have 2 so if one dies I don't lose my connection to the rest of the world.
@AntisocialTroll Yeah that's a worry, especially as everything is online now! I don't know what I'll do yet, as long as it will play some games and do the Internet that's all I care about.
@canusernamebemyusername Yeah it actually worked pretty well. If the screen was well designed, it would have been a good computer - but the hinges snapped and took out the panel.
