The only downside to the solution is the pure bulk of the cooler, as it's bigger than most laptop docks and it requires its own power brick. It cools the air that is fed to the air intakes on the notebook to a much cooler than ambient temperature, although it's far from sub-zero.CoolIT plans to sell this TEC notebook cooler sometime in the near future but it won't be cheap, they're aiming towards $150 to start with. It cools a lot better than a standard laptop cooler but I don't think there's a big market for this product.
This cooler air allows notebooks with an Extreme Edition CPU to overclock higher as the cold air allows the CPU to run at a lower temperature without any need to change the cooling system inside the notebook. Although the picture below only shows 3.55GHz, Intel has hit 3.7GHz using this cooler combined with the notebook in the picture.
CoolIT TEC notebook cooler spotted at IDF
Posted on Saturday, October 25 2008 @ 3:45 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla spotted the TEC laptop cooler from CoolIT at the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan. Intel used this cooler to push their Extreme Edition mobile processors to 3.7GHz: