A Closer Look
The cooler encompasses a very unique design with mirrored corners and a whopping 200mm Antec Big Boy fan in the middle.
The back of the cooler gives you another view of the huge fan that comes supplied with the cooler and shows how the cooler has a unique design which gives the user flexibility on using it on a flat surface such as a desk or on your lap.
Taking centre stage is a honeycomb grill to protect you from the fan which spins at a low RPM to give the user a more silent operation. The fan has the Antec logo branded in the middle just incase you forget.
The 4 corners of the cooler feature some oddly shaped mirrors. The reasoning is unclear but it does add to the futuristic styling of the device on a whole and maybe that is the whole point behind it all.
At the bottom, the Antec logo sits proud with a chrome fill set of lettering.
The Notebook Cooler 200 isn’t the most discrete device on the planet and is quite large when you look at the thickness, but it does allow your laptop to sit at a slight angle, which we’ve found gives the user a slightly better position for use.
At the back is a panel with two switches. One switch is to operate the fan speed from low to high. The low setting enables a 400RPM speed which passes 87.9CFM at 23.8 dBA whilst the high speed gives a 600RPM speed, pushing through 115.7CFM at 27.1 dBA. The high speed isn’t very audible, and due to that factor, we’d insist on having it permanently on high to enable better airflow.
The other switch that is present is to turn the blue LED illumination on or off, though we can only see the illumination having an effect at night as it will omit a glow whereas the day won’t allow this to be seen.
No extra power or batteries are needed to get the cooler powered up; it is simply a matter of plugging the USB connector in. Other coolers similar to this have seen a double USB connector, so that your USB port isn’t lost from the device, and simply gives another port off the back for other purposes, which is a shame that it wasn’t seen on this one.
