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I've never used them, are they useful?

My brother's laptop is facing automated shutdown and heating problem, I installed antimalware etc now I'm thinking to gift him a laptop cooler on his birthday, do these really work? Suggest some please! He does not play games, he just does some office work which does not require more resources.

It's a Sony laptop 15.6 inches and it has vent at left side.
 
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Cooling pads are essentially the equivalent of having a fan blow air against the outside of your case if it was a desktop. That doesn't do anything.

What CAN make a difference is the bottom of the laptop not laying flat and being in direct contact with the table, or a tiny fraction of an inch from direct contact, giving heat no way to escape. If you've ever actually rested a laptop on your lap, and then felt your legs get super hot, you know what I'm talking about. So raising the machine slightly and providing a way for air to flow underneath - or really just a way for heat to avoid becoming trapped - is the main benefit they provide.

http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-NotePal-U2-Cooling/dp/B002SGATH8

I actually have had a machine...
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Hi.
laptops never deal well with heat, I had the same issue when I used my laptop for gaming.
I bought one of these 'cooling pads' which have a few fans in it designed to improve airflow, didn't do a thing.
If the laptop is having thermal shutdowns you need to look into getting the CPU re-pasted as most of the laptop cpu pastes are garbage.
You can try the cooling pads but I wouldn't hold out too much hope for them to be honest.
 
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I see. I also think the same (that cooling pads are of no use).
 
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Cooling pads are essentially the equivalent of having a fan blow air against the outside of your case if it was a desktop. That doesn't do anything.

What CAN make a difference is the bottom of the laptop not laying flat and being in direct contact with the table, or a tiny fraction of an inch from direct contact, giving heat no way to escape. If you've ever actually rested a laptop on your lap, and then felt your legs get super hot, you know what I'm talking about. So raising the machine slightly and providing a way for air to flow underneath - or really just a way for heat to avoid becoming trapped - is the main benefit they provide.

http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-NotePal-U2-Cooling/dp/B002SGATH8

I actually have had a machine that was getting SUPER hot and occasionally overheating; putting it on a pad made the fan slow down and noticeably less heat was being blown out. I suspect that had more to do with the raised orientation than the fans, though.

The other, unrelated benefit to this was that the slight angle made it a lot more comfortable to type on than laying flat, but that could just be a personal preference.

 
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