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Eumax Titan Notebook Cooler

August 20th, 2004 | by Rob Curtis

Introduction

If you often push your notebook to the limits with multi-tasking, gaming or multimedia applications, you know how it can really heat up. It doesn't even take intense use for the bottom of many laptops to get too hot to touch. The processor is the main culprit, and packing powerful processors into such a small space means the heat must be dissipated somehow. For the most part, manufacturers do a good job of preventing their laptops from overheating, but the result, as many of you are well aware, can be a very hot lap or desktop.

Products such as the Eumax Titan notebook fan pad are designed to help cool laptops to prevent overheating or uncomfortable heat on your lap. According to Eumax, the TTC-G1T Titan Notebook Cooler can reduce your operating temperatures a full 10 degrees or more and keep the noise level down while doing it.

Design

Weighing in at approximately one pound, the Titan notebook fan pad is lightweight and slim in dimension. It is constructed of what appears to be an impact resistant plastic material that is silver in color and is adorned with a trendy tribal graphic that thankfully gets covered up when placing your notebook over the unit. Choice of graphics aside, the unit is fairly unassuming. Measuring up at 12.8-inches wide by 10.4-inches deep and 0.7-inches high, it will comfortably slip into a backpack or briefcase right along side your notebook.

Tribal graphics aside, the Titan is a functional and lightweight laptop accessory.

Upon initial inspection, durability of the unit was a concern but the Titan has indeed lived up to it's name and held up quite well in it's travels in a soft-sided briefcase paired with a Dell Latitude D600 notebook.

The Titan gets its power from your notebook through a built-in USB interface. It operates at USB standard 5 Volts and draws 2 Watts of power. The major components of the unit are it's four 60 x 60 x 10mm cooling fans. The fans Titan has thoughtfully put a high/low thumbwheel as well as an on/off switch with LED along the front