The Antec notebook cooler essentially fulfills its promise of pulling hot air from your laptop away from the pc, where it can then be dispersed. My complaint is with two small but important factors:
1) The cooler has four small rubber "feet" that sit between it and your computer. These tend to come off and, being small, ultimately get lost. I have found two of them and plugged them back in a number of times, but they continue to come off. The significance of this is that having that bit of space between your laptop and the cooler is important for pulling the air out. You don't want your laptop to sit immediately upon the cooler, yet this is what ends up happening as you lose first one then another of these four little rubber feet. (Antec could have at the least supplied an extra few spares, IMO).
2) There is a "high" and "low" fan speed switch, but no "off" switch. This could be significant since computers vary from model to model as to whether or not USB power goes off when the computer is placed in "standby" mode. My old laptop would cut power to the USB's, so I had no issue there. With my new laptop, however, power is not cut, so I am left to unplug the USB every time, or else leave the cooler running constantly which doesn't seem a very good idea.
On the plus side, the Antec does provide a pass-thru USB slot, which compensates for the USB port occupied by the device itself.
Ultimately the Antec cooler is a decent product but one with a couple of shortcomings that could be significant.
I know that the Targus model of cooler has gotten some bad press on here, and some of that is well deserved since they tend to last somewhere between 6 and 9 months. But, the little rubber feet do stay on them. Unfortunately, the Targus does not have an on/off switch either. I do think the rubber feet is an issue Antec should address. How hard can it be to design rubber feet that actually stay on (plug-in style on the Antec), or that are firmly glued on???Get more detail about Antec USB-Powered Notebook Cooler.
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