A Cool Laptop is a Happy Laptop

Laptops have very tiny, delicate components that deform or melt when the computer's temperature rises. 

Overheating may happen when you use your computer to the limits of its capacity...like trying to play a game with complex graphics on an Pentium. When vents are blocked. Or when the computer is getting old. 

Your laptop may become slow, you may be unable to open more than a few programs (maybe only 1!) at a time, freeze, or, in the worst cases, it may just shut down and reboot at the peak temperature.  And one day..it may stop working...its little circuits will have melted!

So we must do all possible to keep laptops happily cool. 

If you notice your laptop is hot to touch, suddenly shutting down or getting slow...get it checked and cleaned. The usual culprit is dust clogging the vents. Cleaning it will restore at least some of venting capacity and prolong your laptop's life. 

Never put your laptop over a blanket or anything else that blocks its vents. 

Elevate your laptop from the desk too, so as to maximize ventilation. You can simply put a book under the laptop, on an edge, to allow air to flow under the vents, or use one of these:

 

 

Another option is a cooler...and better do it before you start noticing problems.

The cooler can decrease your laptop's temperature by as much as an average of 14-30 degrees, which certainly helps! And sometimes if the temperature drops by only 2 degrees, that can make a difference. 

The way I see it, for average use, getting a cooler is more about prolonging the life of your laptop than faster or better performance. In gaming, a good cooler is most important as gaming takes computers to the extreme of its capacity, which increases the chances of overheating. While not everybody will agree to my opinion, this has been my experience as an owner of many laptops over 20 years..including a dying 6-year-old laptop that kept shutting down every hour until I added a cooler - it did well for over a year after that, without shutdowns and until I decided to get a new one. I'm not a laptop guru..just someone that has learned from experience (RIP my good ole dear laptop!).

Here are some of the best-selling and highest-rated laptop coolers in Amazon! 

Enjoy!