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Cooling a Laptop with Coins

How long until someone turns this idea into a silly Kickstarter product?

By Rain Noe - September 7, 2016

in Consumer Electronics

If you've got a Macbook Pro you know that yes, that strip above the function keys gets uncomfortably hot during processor-intensive tasks. That's fine with me since my fingers are never up there anyway. But it bugs "lifehacker" BenriHacks, who thus devised a coin-based "thermal management cooling method:"

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I doubt that it makes enough of a temperature difference to affect your machine's performance. But I can totally see someone running with this idea and designing a "cooling bar" and throwing it up on Kickstarter. I'm picturing a thin strip of walnut with a copper rod embedded within it, and it will be branded "artisanal" and have a rich brand story behind it. Just you watch.

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Matt Harouff

8 years ago

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I'll give it a shot. 🤔

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Mrten Boi

8 years ago

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Fun until you close the laptop with a coin or two in between, that's an expensive repair. I religiously keep pencils and pens off laptop keyboards for that reason.

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Patrick Andrews

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It's so frustrating that nobody bothered to apply a thermometer to anything...so we could tell if there was a non-zero effect.

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A little thermal paste between coins would likely boost efficiency.

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