About once a year I have to completely take apart my laptop to clean-out du st from the heat-sink. Now they could have just put in some kind of access panel where the heat-sink is so that I could just open it and clean it out or at least made the cooling fan so that it sucked air instead of blow so t hat I could clean the heat-sink from the side or at least made the housing of the cooling fan more open so that I could cut a hole under the housing o f my laptop to access the heat-sink from the side of the fan. NOOOOO they m ade it so that the only way to get to their damn heat-sink is to COMPLETELY take apart the G.D. laptop. Enough is enough, I got sick and tired of it, so I completely removed the cooling fan; I cut out the slats of the air ven t under where the fan was. I bought something called a ?Chill Mat? whic h is a booster fan you normally place under the laptop for extra cooling. O nly cost me $20.00. I also got some weather stripping and some duct tape. I bordered the booster fan with duct tape and weather stripping so that all the air goes directly into the vent on the bottom of the laptop. Would you believe it my laptop is faster now that it is cooler and if I ever need to clean the heat-sink all I have to do is reach in from the vent and clean. So to all the laptop manufactures out there: F.U.
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10 years ago