Thread: Glacialtech X-Wing R1 Notebook Cooling Pad

The X-Wing R1 is one of the few decent looking notebook coolers around. Some might find the bright red accents loud, but we feel it complements the black body. It's well built and the top is entirely mesh with a rather small fan enclosed. The centre of the rear is vented. Two pegs are provided for further inclination towards your body, if the need should arise. Even without these, the cooler is pretty high and the palm rest on your notebook is at least 1.2-inches higher than normal. Towards the end of the notebook, the height is only slightly more at 1.8-inches, using the foot-pegs raises this by another 0.5 inches. The cooler has a rubber strip running across the mesh and this is better than the traditional pegs used, since it will prevent both big and small notebooks from sliding. Upto 17-inch notebooks can fit on this cooler.



The wrist support has a quite a few blue-LED backlit buttons, for varying fan speed, displaying the temperature and fan RPM via an integrated two digit, monochrome LCD. There are also multimedia buttons along with volume controls. Thankfully your wrist will not accidentally activate anything, because you have to apply extra pressure to engage the buttons. The fan is a low RPM one, and has a pretty low CFM thanks to its size, meaning the speed control doesn't do much, we'd prefer a larger fan that covered a greater surface. While this won't cool down notebooks with heavy-duty GPUs, it does okay with regular notebooks that have venting on the rear. While it affected the temperature of an Acer notebook we tested, it had no effect on Apple's MacBook Pro. A niche product, and a mediocre one at that, in terms of cooling.