Cooler Master NotePal X3 - Laptop Cooling Pad with 200mm Blue LED Fan

I purchased this cooler for my 15-inch Macbook Pro. If you're not a macbook owner, then you should know they get extremely hot due to a lack of a proper cooling feature.Performance: I figured the NotePal X3 would be the best cooler out there for my Mac. The fan is huge and hits the entire bottom of my Mac evenly to somewhat cooldown the surface temp. (My computer relies on it's aluminum casing to "wick" heat.) Put simply, heat wicking alone doesn't work at high performance levels. The X3 helps as much as it possibly could considering my laptop's poor design. The fan can only speed up to 850 rpm +/- 15%. The breeze you get definitely isn't akin to a leaf blower...but I figure it's okay. All in all, this would work much better with a laptop that has a cooling design of pulling IN air through bottom vents and OUT the back.Build Quality: The X3 is constructed of lightweight, sorta "cheap" feeling plastic. Seems durable enough though. Just don't drop it. The top is a metal mesh that's perfectly flat. It relies on your computer's rubber feet to sit it up off the cooler and let the heat get out and/or...blow it into the computer's intake vents. (no rubber supports on the X3 itself) Since my mac's "feet" only sit it millimeters up off the surface, the former doesn't work too well either. (no intake vents on mac) The X3 also features sturdy rubber feet to keep it steady on whatever (flat) surface you put it on. These are on the flip-up feet to prop it at an angle as well. Once again, seems sturdy enough. Says it fits up to 17" laptops. I put my mom's 17" computer on it and it only went over both edges of the X3 by a half inch or so. Therefore, it would seem like it's suitable for cooling a wider area such as that. Go any larger with your laptop though and it'll look like you're trying to balance a book on a baseball.Noise: At top speed, the fan gives off 23 db (according to box). It's not exactly white noise...it's a little different. There's a lower "rumble" to it. At first I thought something was wrong, but things seem fine. I suppose it's the large blades whipping the air. That's good right?Other features: Lights...okay cool feature. I don't ever really see them unless I'm gaming in near darkness. It's really just an "ooo" factor for your friends.USB Port: Yes it has a low power USB on the side by the fan speed dial labeled "USB Out". It powers my wireless mouse. Given that the Macbook only has 2 USB ports, this was a win for me. It won't power anything like a webcam though...stuff like that requires more juice.All in all, I give it 5 stars if I were using it with a PC laptop with proper cooling design. However, for my use, It'll have to suffice for 4 stars. But that's not it's fault. Go Cooler Master.

First off let me begin by how beautifully designed this product was, not to mention it keeps it's inspiration of jet plans as the product itself is visually, EXTREMELY attractive and appealing.The functions of this cooling pad are simply outstanding, a button for the fan, a button for the lights, and a speed setting for the fan itself? This was simply just marvelous! (By my personal experience it was still EXTREMELY quiet on any speeds! And I mean fastest and slowest)The rubber paddings are great, big enough to keep itself stable along with the height settings included to suit your comforted needs of position.Another thing though to mention is how obviously this product could vary in terms of a model compared to the images depicted in sorts for advertisement, the product for my case had the fan rimmed with a welded big plastic ring I believe, which means the ends of the blades were covered but that gave me less worry of anything that would try to break one of the blades off, unfortunately this, I believe, denied my feature of keeping my palms cool from the front vents, but that's not much to worry since I often keep my place chilled anyway. (And due to the laptop covering the top unsurprisingly the air does though still managed to flow through, and onto my hands)I wish I could say much more to compliment this amazing product but CM has just left me speechless with this item alone, but besides that and to give a short summary for those who couldn't spend much time, aka: "tl;dr", this product is definitely WORTH the buy, not just because it has one of the biggest fans either, but just because of how great this model itself is, and worry not potential consumers, with a fine product such as this, your laptop would be kept happy, and your wallet left with no regrets.