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Cheapest Laptop Cooler - Water Packets

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Hi Folks - The only problem with my Dell Latitude D630 laptop is while watching a movie. Over a period of time it star ts getting warmer (it never hung though). This is probably common with all laptops, I've seen lenovos heat up faster and sometimes freeze too. So I started surfing for a good laptop cooler. While searching it occurred to me that most of them are USB based, which further draws another 5V from the laptop, i felt something was seriously wrong here. In the meanwhile my laptop was getting warmer ag ain and seriously wan ted to do something fast, i looked around and found a plastic bottle of water. I immediately put that under my laptop, and it actually st arted to cool off. Wow ! However it was a bit inconvenient to work with the bottle of water under the laptop. On surfing further for water cooler solutions, i found a guy used a ' hot water pack ', filled with room temperature water and that worked for him. Thanks to him, I further thought of a more che aper a...