Bamboo adjustable laptop stand with fan
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
By Steve Eagle
The Macally ECOFANPRO is just the laptop stand I was looking for. Beautiful design, dual fans, adjustable height and come on, it's made out of bamboo. I regularly game on my 15" MacBook Pro and you could fry an egg on it after a few minutes of the graphics card going to work. With this stand, my laptop has left the "imminent danger" zone and I feel much more secure playing games for extended periods of time. Even better than the cooling is the design aesthetic. It's elegant, yet sturdy and functional. I like wood-colored accents so this matched nicely with my wood & glass computer desk.
As for the quality of the fans - a quick trip to the local computer store can nest you a couple of decent 2.5" fans for probably $15. I'd rather do that than deal with an RMA process with Macally and end up with the same exact fans again. My fans are still going strong after several weeks of use but if they do go bad it's not exactly difficult to replace them. You're really paying for the craftsmanship of the bamboo anyways.
Update 7/21/11: I ordered two more of these stands for coworkers and they are now shipping with updated fans. They are larger and have a better blade design, so they push considerably more air than the original fans, and are black as opposed to white. Only downside is they are a little bit louder than the old fans. I have a feeling they changed the fans as a response to end user disappointment over the original fans, so I expect these fans to last even longer and work more reliably. That said, my two original Ecofan stands with the white fans are still going strong with no issues.
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
By Burt
I have had the EcoFan Pro stand for about a month now. I really like the Bamboo construction, it adds a little bit of warmth to an otherwise dreary office space. The adjustable height allows me to position my laptop monitor next to my desktop monitor, which gives me a much more comfortable two monitor setup.
The fans do seem to keep my MacBook a little bit cooler ... but the fans are this units downfall. After only a month of use one of the two fans has failed. Be aware that if this happens to you after the sellers return period expires, you will be responsible for paying the shipping back to the manufacturer to get it fixed. On such an inexpensive unit the return shipping costs just don't make sense.
At the end of the day I would suggest buying a cooling stand with better fans.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By Travis Jordan
This is the stand I've been looking for! Beautiful materials, elegant design, solid construction, great attention to details, refined. However, after two days the fans started sounding a distinct resonance pattern - this is the early sign of inevitable fan failure. If only they had installed high quality fans, this would be a nearly perfect laptop stand. As it is currently produced, it is unfortunately a critically flawed product that had to be returned . . . and returns are seriously, seriously annoying.
Yet, I can't get over how nice this stand was. So, I've ordered their other model in the hopes that it might, by some chance, have a reliable, quality fan set: Macally ECOFAN Bamboo Laptop Stand with Fan. We'll see how this one does . . .
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