Moshi Zefyr Macbook 13 inch Macbook 13 inch Unibody Pro and Macbook Air Cooling Pad Silver

A macbook under continuous demanding usage will become uncomfortably warm and the noise generated by the internal fans will become disruptively loud. without proper thermal management, your macbook may overheat to a point where it runs much slower or even locks up. as a subtle yet effective cooling solution, zefyr is designed to maintain your macbooks system stability even under peak loading conditions.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Nice little cooler
It could be better in a few ways, but this cooler has a lot going for it. It’s small and with the wings slid back together is even smaller. It’s very light weight. It’s even cool looking.

The fan doesn’t seem like it does much good, so I usually don’t bother plugging it in. (When you do plug it in, you can plug another USB into it.)

I mostly use this if I’m working in bed, where it not only dissipates at least some of the heat but it also keeps the air vents from getting blocked.

1 Star rather use ice pack
I bought the silver one hoping that it would alleviate the second core shutdown problem with my mac book air. As some of you may already know, mac book air has an overheating problem when connected to an external monitor. I can never watch video with the full screen for more than 15 mins with my air. It would overheat and shuts down the second CPU core to cool down, then the notebook becomes unusable. I bought my air to use it for iphone application development. Since compiling codes takes up full CPU and you have to compile your codes pretty often, I cannot continue using my air for more than 30 mins for development.

So, within 15 mins, I again see the core shutdown. The temperature of my air is over 60 and fan runs at 6200 rpm. The body of my air is hot, still my zefyr is just a little warm. The material they use for heat transfer looks and feels very similar to the heat sink tapes you use for CPUs and the heat sink tapes are designed to work with firm contact between the CPU and heat sink.

The design of zefyr failed since mac book air or any note book would not have enough weight to make the firm contact to the zefyr heat sink.

Waste of money!!

1 Star Not for MacBook Air
Pro’s:

1. Becomes slightly warm, presumably by drawing heat from the MacBook and not from it’s own fan motor

Con’s:

1. Does not fit well with a MacBook Air (partially obscures video-out port)

2. Somewhat awkward to setup (each time used, not once)

3. No “stick” to keep it and the Air from slipping out of place with each other

4. Does not balance properly with an Air, i.e., requires weight of one’s hands on the keyboard to keep the Air grounded

5. Roughly as loud as the MacBook Air’s fan at full RPM–but the Zefyr is always at full RPM, unlike the MBA exhaust that adjusts to need

Summary:

It doesn’t do much, what little it does is done awkwardly, and it looks nice when not in use.

1 Star Bad design but nice concept.
Does NOT fit Macbook Air. An aluminum sink is a good idea, but the problem is that it does NOT contact the aluminum (MBA sits on the rubber bumpers) of the MBA so it does not transfer heat. Fan is also on the wrong side of the device for MBA. Fan is located on the right side of the cooler, but the hottest part of the MBA is on the left side. Price is also MUCH too high for what it is and how it performs. Would be better if it had fans on BOTH sides.

Aside from that, the fan is quiet and the USB port does not get taken up by the plug.

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