Laptop cooler for my 20" laptop?

So I have a Sager NP5960/Clevo M590KE laptop that is 20" and I was playing Lost Planet today with my fans running max speed (fn+1) and my laptop overheated.

My laptop is currently sitting on a wood desk which I heard was bad so I want to buy a laptop cooler that I can sit it on but where can you find a laptop cooler that can fit a 20" laptop? I checked the sager site but i don't think they sell one. I checked the net but none of them say what laptop fits on it. Any help on this?

 

thats one massive "laptop".

i think that there are only a few that are designed for specific sizes. i believe that most are designed for 14"-17" laptops. meaning that you would have to find one that is reasonablty sturdy. i have had no experience with notebook coolers, so hopefully someone knows a chunky one.

 

I think your best shot would be to try and get one made for 17" laptops and balance your laptop in the middle?

 

well i was thinking something like this would maybe work
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834996501
but then the wood desk is still an issue

edit:
actually the dimensions of that is
1.03" x 4.0" x 1.1"mm
and the dimensions of my laptop is
1.2" x 18.7" x 13.5"

so i guess u could say too small?

 

A cooler made for 17" laptops would work. The lappy would overlap on each side by only 1.5". Just be careful not to lean on it where it overlaps.

 

you could get two 10 inch coolers if there is such a thing

 

Don't know if you guys have seem the 17" to 20" comparison from the Sager Np5960 review
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/19718.jpg

Thats quite a difference, i really don't know if a 17" cooler would work

 

I would say go to the nearest department store and get one of those standard fan units that just stand up...you know what I'm talking about. Just point it at the laptop.

 

I would like something that I could stick in my bookbag

 

You carry a 20incher in your bookbag? Working up those shoulder muscles?

 

haha you have a bookbag for that thing?? i have a 17" lappy and i cant even find a bag that "fits" it

 

Maybe a couple of those reusable cold packs that can be re-chilled in the freezer?

 

Heh, feels the same as the bookbag I carried in high school.

Came with the laptop, it's made for the laptop.

I wana be able to sit my laptop,lol

 

if you guys were to choose one of these, which one would you choose?

Spire Pacific Breeze
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834996501&Tpk=pacific+breeze

Antec Notebook Cooler S
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834997068


Which one would do the better job?

 

I know it's been awhile since this post- but as a former employee of an industrial design firm, and considering the issue, the solution, should you or anyone else need it, and in light that laptops larger than the widescreen standard 17" diagonal LCD will be quite rare, and hence lack much market for periferals of this nature... here is the solution

1) Put your laptop on a piece of cardboard you can trace or outline roughly
2) Trace the shape
3) place fans in approximately the location you'd like fans to be (usually to help blow air into the current locations of the laptops fans, get it?)
4) Cut out the shape
5) Locate a motocycle or automotive engine repair shop (call around and find someone who does aluminum welding- not all shops do but they'll know someone who "arc's 'luminum")
6) take some pocket change and head on down there- maybe bring a fan sample and the laptop
7) show them what you need =a little wedge-like book that is made of sheet alluminum (I'd say 1/8" is PLeNTy thick) and unscrews on the bottom (for fan replacement and electronic access). ACTUALLY SHOW the person who will be doing the work what the design thing needs (they can look at it and usually they're smart enough to suggest where to put something if you're not)
8) Leave the pattern with them -if they don't make their own
9) pay
10) come back a week later and they'll have your shining new alluminum cooling pad- perhaps even embosed with your name on it , eh?

Now take it home and install the fans with a USB power jack and perhaps an on-off switch on the side.


-note-
I suggest a small lip on the front and back for laptop security.
you could also add an external power supply to power it (RadioShack) and even cut a hole and epoxy in a few extra hubs or a 3.5" set of drives- the possibilities are eNDLESS...(beer tap?)!

We built some custom laptops (yes the LAPTOP) this way, using some local shops... put some widescreen LCD's in light aluminum chassis we made for military field work, kinda like the panasonic toughbooks with big rubber drop-corners....

Aluminum guys will make anything you want, as long as you talk with them. The material are cheap, and they welcome new projects and design problems usually...and if you hang out they'll usually do something funky or cool for ya.
It's art for them, eh?

Peace.
-J

 

What kind of backpack do you have that you can fit a 20" laptop?

What you should do, is buy some laptop feet. Installing them should raise the back of your system up about an inch, and that would most likely help cut temperatures as much as a coolpad, without the extra fans.

K-TRON

 

And on top of what K-TRON said, and put cooler underneath it, like a 17" one if you can't find and a 20".
Your bag must weigh like 30lbs with everything.