$7 plexiglas stand for 7811

Got a little slow at work today so I put this together using a 7$ piece of plexiglas from home depot. It was bent using 2 C clamps, a 2x4 and a heat gun. I cut to size with a razor knife and a little luck. Drilled some simple holes under the air intakes with a hole saw.

It isn't the sexiest thing out there but it raises my laptop screen up to a more comfortable level, angles the keyboard nicely for me and has taken about 15 degrees off my load temps by letting the intakes breath. All without fan noise.

The stand is plenty sturdy and holds this notebook perfectly. The notebook is "stuck" to the stand by it's feet but I can move the stand around on the desk much easier now. It always annoys me when I go to push the notebook back to work on something else and the feet won't slide across my desk. Problem solved.

Just an idea for anyone that doesn't want to spend a ton of money on a generic stand. 7 bucks and an hour can get you a stand that fits your notebook perfectly and looks pretty good doing it. This could be easily adapted to any other notebook out there. The standard plexiglas panel was 18" wide which is more then enough for up to your typical 17" widescreen notebook.

More pics at http://picasaweb.google.com/bigddybn/LaptopStand#

 

You should go into the business!

Nice work. I might have to do this too! haha

 

Oh god no, if you looked harder at it in person you'd agree I'm very happy with it for 7 dollars though.

 

heh well maybe quality isn't on par compared to the competition, but I doubt ANYONE could complain if you tried to sell then that for $7!!!

(The cheap price would be your niche lol)

 

After an hour of Orthos

 

it looks terrible and appears to be a waste of 7$, i will gladly take it off your hands at no charge.

 

Very creative!! Might be a nice small weekend project.

 

dude that looks awsome!

 

it needs to be set on small fft's and not cpu & ram

 

looks sweet i might have to buy this for my new laptop, something for the bed, looks better than logitech alto express

 

Nice job! Can't complain for $7.

 

I like it.

Both cheap and effective.

All around i say great effort and a good deal!

 

yep, looks great to me!

now put two fans in them holes and we are in business!

 

I have 2 children under 2 years old. There is already enough noise. No thanks

 

weird? a gaming laptop that doesn't make noise. if your not using it for gaming, then why make a stand for cooling? just asking.

edit: thing doesn't even break a sweat doing anything else.

 

I feel your pain...i've played many a game on complete silent mode after a night or two of teething. Sometiems silence is golden

 

You should make another vent for the HDD area... couldn't hurt, right? Otherwise, very nice.

 

ahhh, never mind bigddybn, i see what you mean. disregard that last comment.

 

FWIW....

If you decide to add cooling, Arctic Cooling makes dead silent fans with built-in thermal sensors. I use them in every desktop machine I build, both for the CPU and any case fans. Even GPU coolers when passive won't work.

 

ok, ive been wondering the possibilities of this, could an external fan speed up the rate of the internal fans aging, so instead of a fan lasting 2 years, it would now last a year or less? my theory behind this is the external fan would cause the internal fan to spin in an excess of its standard rpm while the motor runs at the same voltage trying to run at the original rpm.
it would be like having two desktop fans, both on but one is blowing air into the intake side of the other one

 

Hm... that is a good question and I see the merit of your assumption. I just don't know the answer though... >.<