Are you faced with the challenge of dealing with an overheating laptop while at usage? Well, it is important to note that overheating can negatively affect your MacBook in terms of performance and system failure. Certainly, you do not wish to experience the inability to use your laptop at any given time. Heating is one of most prevalent issues that laptop users have to deal with. This is caused by the inability of the inbuilt cooling system to extend its bandwidth to facilitate longer usage. However, there is a solution to this issue which is the cooling pad. In addition to its capability to prevent overheating, it also reduces the operating temperature of your laptop.

How to pick up the best cooling pad for your 13-inch MacBook Pro Below are tips that will help you select the most suitable cooling pad for your Mac Book Pro. Extensibility Each laptop has a limited number of USB ports. Therefore, attaching a cooling pad to the laptop means that you will be short of one port. This simply means that the cooling pad is not extensible.

However, there are cooling pads that provide the option of directly connecting other USB devices to the pin or the cooling pad. This type of cooling pads tends to be more costly than those lacking this feature. Therefore, it is up to you to decide whether the remaining ports on your laptop will serve their purpose while the cooling pad is connected. Quality The purpose of a cooling pad is to lower the temperatures of a laptop. In order to identify the quality of a cooling pad, you ought to identify the effectiveness and the time it takes to reduce the inner temperature of a laptop. A high-quality cooling pad consists of multiple fans to facilitate superior airflow.

Price There are a variety of Mac Book cooling pads in the market. Different manufacturers sell their products at different prices. Therefore, your budget will help you determine the most convenient cooling pad for you. However, it is not advisable to purchase a product that is very cheap as it may fail to function as expected.

Portability You need to consider the weight of a cooling pad before purchasing one. This will determine its portability as most people prefer something that they can easily carry around.

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Click to expand.I looked on NewEgg and saw a million choices and figured I would ask here for something tried and true. If you don't know, MBP are metal and thus act as a heat sink, and so they absorb tons of heat from the sun, from ambient temperature, and on and on. I can't always keep my MBP in a 65 degree controlled environment.

Yesterday I was running errands and my car went to over 120 really quick when I ran into Target. And even when Iw as working outside last night, it was 95 degrees at 10:00pm. Click to expand.Anything cooler than the sun will absorb heat from the sun. Being made of metal has nothing to do with it.

If you're looking for something to keep your computer cool while you're using it, you have a ton of options - virtually anything that's roughly the same footprint as your Mac. But if you're looking for something to keep it cool while it's sitting in your car on a hot day, I'm not sure such a product exists (if it did, car manufacturers would buy them all and install them in seats!). I also live in Texas and I don't think twice about leaving my MBP in the car for even up to several hours if I need to - but it isn't running under such circumstances, so an external cooler or heat sink really isn't needed, nor would it be any help even if I did have one. Radiative heat transfer ('under sunlight,' as you put it) is completely independent of material - it's based on temperature difference, and only on that.

Read more about the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. But your computer doesn't get hot in your car because the sun is shining on it, it gets hot in your car because the sun's radiation heats the inside of your car, and the glass lets very little of that escape. The effect on your computer is the same as putting into a warm oven; that is interface heat transfer, and it's not a function of the object's material, but of BOTH objects' material. The fact that the case is metal DOES improve conduction, as you pointed out - but that simply means if you heat one side of the metal, the other side will also get hot. With regard to transferring heat from one medium to another, say from warm air to something else, the fact that the computer is metal has much less to do with it. Anything cooler than the sun will absorb heat from the sun. Being made of metal has nothing to do with it.

If you're looking for something to keep your computer cool while you're using it, you have a ton of options - virtually anything that's roughly the same footprint as your Mac. But if you're looking for something to keep it cool while it's sitting in your car on a hot day, I'm not sure such a product exists (if it did, car manufacturers would buy them all and install them in seats!). I also live in Texas and I don't think twice about leaving my MBP in the car for even up to several hours if I need to - but it isn't running under such circumstances, so an external cooler or heat sink really isn't needed, nor would it be any help even if I did have one. Radiative heat transfer ('under sunlight,' as you put it) is completely independent of material - it's based on temperature difference, and only on that. Read more about the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. But your computer doesn't get hot in your car because the sun is shining on it, it gets hot in your car because the sun's radiation heats the inside of your car, and the glass lets very little of that escape. The effect on your computer is the same as putting into a warm oven; that is interface heat transfer, and it's not a function of the object's material, but of BOTH objects' material.

Click to expand.Sorry, but that is totally wrong!! My aluminum MBP gets hot in my car MUCH MORE because it was in the sun than because my care was hot. Put on some short shorts, and go sit on the metal hood of a car and tell me how it feels!! (Then go sit on a piece of styrofoam - also in the sunlight - and tell me how it feels. Metal is more dense than stryofoam, thus is CONDUCTS heat much better. Yes, the closed environment of your car gets hot, but gases do not CONDUCT HEAT the way a solid does. That is why metal and stone retain heat so much better than wood, styrofoam and so on.

My MBP get wickedly hot in my car first because it was in the sunlight and it is metal, and then secondly because it was hot in my car. (My car seats are clothe, and in a 120 F car they don't feel hot. But even on a Texas Winter day, when my metal laptop is in the sunlight, it gets hot as hell!

Click to expand.Actually folks are mixing a couple different heat transfer issues. As TOMORROW mentioned above, radiative heat transfer is solely a function of temperature difference. That's what heats up the items in your car.

The block of styrofoam and the Macbook in your car are exactly the same temperature after similar exposure in the car, even if one is in the sun and the other in the shade, provided they are both in the car long enough for the car to reach equilibrium (the example of a couple hours should be sufficient). The example given above (sitting on a hot hood) is an example of CONDUCTIVE (not radiative) heat transfer. Heat and temperature are not the same thing. The block of styrofoam and Macbook at the same temperature do not have the same amount of heat in them (based on mass), nor are they able to transfer that heat at the same rate (thermal conductivity).

The Macbook (or hood of your car) FEELS hotter because the metals are able to TRANSFER their heat to your skin faster/better than the block of styrofoam. The mass of the hood (and Macbook) allow them to store more heat energy (and subsequently transfer it to your butt) than a similar sized block of styrofoam.

However, you are right to be concerned about high ambient conditions, they can certainly take their toll on temperature throttled processors and battery life. Good luck staying cool!

Click to expand.You're talking about two different courses of heat transfer. If you leave some objects in your car long enough, they will all come to the same temperature, regardless of material - even styrofoam. That is the radiation/convection I mentioned previously, and with regard to your want for a cooler. What you're describing here is heat transfer from a hot object to your skin, in which case the material WILL make a difference. Touching a 120 degree metal plate (or hood of your car, if you'd rather) will transfer heat to your skin more quickly than touching a 120 degree piece of styrofoam - but that doesn't change the fact that they are both the same temperature, and will both come to the same temperature inside your car. A better test would be to use an infrared thermometer - the metal and styrofoam will show you they are exactly the same temperature.

Actually folks are mixing a couple different heat transfer issues. As TOMORROW mentioned above, radiative heat transfer is solely a function of temperature difference. That's what heats up the items in your car. The block of styrofoam and the Macbook in your car are exactly the same temperature after similar exposure in the car, even if one is in the sun and the other in the shade, provided they are both in the car long enough for the car to reach equilibrium (the example of a couple hours should be sufficient). The example given above (sitting on a hot hood) is an example of CONDUCTIVE (not radiative) heat transfer.

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Heat and temperature are not the same thing. The block of styrofoam and Macbook at the same temperature do not have the same amount of heat in them (based on mass), nor are they able to transfer that heat at the same rate (thermal conductivity).

The Macbook (or hood of your car) FEELS hotter because the metals are able to TRANSFER their heat to your skin faster/better than the block of styrofoam. The mass of the hood (and Macbook) allow them to store more heat energy (and subsequently transfer it to your butt) than a similar sized block of styrofoam. However, you are right to be concerned about high ambient conditions, they can certainly take their toll on temperature throttled processors and battery life. Good luck staying cool! Actually folks are mixing a couple different heat transfer issues. As TOMORROW mentioned above, radiative heat transfer is solely a function of temperature difference.

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That's what heats up the items in your car. The block of styrofoam and the Macbook in your car are exactly the same temperature after similar exposure in the car, even if one is in the sun and the other in the shade, provided they are both in the car long enough for the car to reach equilibrium (the example of a couple hours should be sufficient). The example given above (sitting on a hot hood) is an example of CONDUCTIVE (not radiative) heat transfer. Heat and temperature are not the same thing. The block of styrofoam and Macbook at the same temperature do not have the same amount of heat in them (based on mass), nor are they able to transfer that heat at the same rate (thermal conductivity).

The Macbook (or hood of your car) FEELS hotter because the metals are able to TRANSFER their heat to your skin faster/better than the block of styrofoam. The mass of the hood (and Macbook) allow them to store more heat energy (and subsequently transfer it to your butt) than a similar sized block of styrofoam. However, you are right to be concerned about high ambient conditions, they can certainly take their toll on temperature throttled processors and battery life. Good luck staying cool! Click to expand.My larger point - and finsfanscott can correct me if I am wrong - is that because the aluminum case on my MBP RETAINS heat so much better than a piece of styrofoam - even if they are technically the same temperature - means that all of the internals on my MBP also retain heat more, thus causing an enormous amount of stress on them.

It is going to be like 102 F today, and my car will get between 120-140F Even if I leave my MBP inside all day, if I take it with me later today it will get hot quickly even if it is in the shade. And if it is running in those temperatures then it will get quite a bit hotter - or have more heat - than if it was running inside where it is 70 F. I think I need to move to Seattle or Canada for half the year! I do know that I am glad that I didn't buy a new MBP, because I would have ruined in my current situation.