In 2005, I reviewed the Antec Notebook Cooler. It broke in early 2007 as a result of connecting a VGA cable to my Dell Inspiron 700m, when there pretty obviously really wasn’t room for it to fit. Eventually the thin wire that connects the USB cable to the USB plug was separated, making the device useless. It looks like a definite weak spot of the device. A year’s use for ~$10 is nothing to complain about, though.

So after some time using an inferior cheap replacement, I decided I needed to set out and find another Antec Notebook Cooler. Man you never know what you’re missing until it’s gone. So I bought another one used for ~$10.

So if I had to revisit the 9.5/10 score, I’d now give it a 9.0/10, due to its critical weakpoint. Now that I know what can go wrong, I can prevent it from happening again.