Office Cooling

The first time my work laptop hit 95 degrees Celsius during a video call, I could feel the heat through the desk. The fans were spinning at full speed, the bottom of the machine was hot enough to cook on, and the call kept stuttering because the CPU was throttling itself to survive. A laptop cooling pad won’t turn a hot laptop into a cold one, but it does something almost as useful: it gives the machine enough airflow to stop choking itself. ...

Summer turns your home office into a greenhouse. The laptop throws heat. The afternoon sun blasts through the window. And nothing is worse than being hot on a call where everyone can hear the cheap fan buzzing behind your voice. A good desk fan fixes the heat without adding noise. We tested six desk fans from $15 to $60 — USB and AC, bladeless and bladed, with and without remotes. ...