There are many laptop coolers out there but this is the laptop cooler that I have personally chosen for my Acer Aspire laptop. Belkin calls it a laptop cooling stand so if you are looking for a Belkin laptop cooler, then you have come to the right place because now I will talk about this cool looking laptop cooling stand for you to judge.

I have actually bought this stand for its cool and stylish looks. If I were to buy and invest money on a laptop cooler, I might as well buy one that looks good with or without my laptop. Out of all the coolers I looked at, the Belkin F5L001 looked the best. Part of its cool looks comes from its patented wave design. Unlike the other laptop coolers that look ‘geeky’ and unstylish, its wave design not only pleases the eye, it actually has a more defined purpose which I am going to expound on further.

The Belkin F5L001 is different from other laptop coolers in that it doesn’t suck the heat out from the bottom of the laptop but instead blows it out. The concept is same as blowing your hot food to make it cooler or blowing on a hot cup of coffee to cool it down (you don’t suck the heat right? I don’t…). This is where the wave design comes in. When the cooling stand blows out the heat, the hot air exits via the natural air flow to the left and the right of the laptop through the space created by the wave design. See the diagram below for a clearer picture:

It also makes use of only one fan thus its power consumption is less leading to less heat generated. To use the cooler, you just have to plug it into one of your available USB slot and you are all set.

Belkin has also taken into consideration your different angles of usage. Like many of us, we use our laptop on our unstable laps. To make sure that our laptops don’t slip easily the Belkin F5L001 also has rubber pads on the top and the bottom of the surface. Neck and wrist strain is considerably reduced becaue of the gentle slope created when raisin the stand. Some say that it is noisy but it is not. The reason for this might be because the fan is probably dirty. Once you clean the fan after a period of usage, then everything will back to normal.

So if you are contemplating on buying a laptop cooler, add the Belkin F5L001 into your list as I am personally vouching for it.