I like to keep my macbook on an elevated stand when its connected to monitor/keyboard/mouse. Does anyone know of a passive cooling stand (no fans) that works with macbooks? Maybe just something with a giant finned heatsink that presses right up against the middle of the case or something?
I use a Rain Design mStand. It's basically just a raised chunk of aluminum. It probably passively cools to some extent (it claims it does), but I have no metrics to say how much.
(Of course, you could possibly also lay a freezer pack on the bottom of the stand, and maybe it would wick heat away even faster, and still passively...)
So I'm just checking out a video review of that stand. It looks like there's rubber pads that maybe raise the laptop up a bit off the plate. Can you tell me if your laptop is actually laying flush against the aluminum plate, or is there an air gap?
