What are some good ways to elevate a Sager 8130?

It occurs to me that I tend to spend enough time working while lying prone on something soft (bed, couch, etc) that it may be a problem for the Sager I have in the mail. Looking at this service manual, it looks like all the intake is coming in from the bottom of the machine.

I've always been of the impression that cooling pads succeed less because of their fans and more because they just lift laptops up onto a good ventilated surface. SO, keeping that in mind, anyone got any good reliable ways to lift a machine up off a soft surface while retaining ease of use? Short of, like, placing it on a barbecue grill or something.

Maybe some sort of way of elevating the back as to keep the keyboard angled towards me, and the vents up off the surface? That alone gives me this idea that a laptop chassis that comes with some sort of deployable legs in the back as a default (think keyboard prompts) would be worth experimenting with.

How is the 8130 with slow cooking your legs during lap use, by the way? I can see the heat vents out the back, but how hot does the bottom of the chassis get under load?

 

put a book under the back-end of it. If i'm just typing on the sager though, it's quite cool. Even gaming it stays cool. The NP8130 is an incredibly chilled laptop. It idles in the high 20s C, and i have NEVER gotten it above 72 deg C in gaming.

Jason

 

I hear a lot of people saying actually using the 'lap'top on your lap is very bad for it

 

Most people use a laptop cooling pad or a lap desk to keep it elevated and on a hard surface. You are correct in that the air intake is on the bottom, so it's critical that these fans aren't blocked. You can always use a book, a piece of wood, etc - anything that gives you a level surface to work on.

 

Agreed, do not just put it on a blanket and assume there's going to be enough ventilation.