Cooler Master Notepal Ergostand 17" 140mm Notebook Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,583 words · ~7 min read
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this unboxing is going to be done a little bit differently in that I am not
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going to try and stand in front of the camera but rather I going to just hold
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the camera and unbox it so this is how this arrived this is The Cooler Master
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not palal Ergo stand let's have a look at some of the features it boasts first
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of all it is for 9 in to 17in notebooks
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I guess that's quite the range it has five adjustable angle stand 140 mm
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silent fan a four port USB hub and desktop setup not quite sure what
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that is this this is obviously attention
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Linus not Linus's cat go away okay and
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it comes with a 2010 product guide so
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let's see what this includes this is just kind of a random thing but it's
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here so we might as well have a look so uh no no go
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away go away go away cat okay what do we
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got I cannot figure out how this opens
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this is pathetic I'm trying to open this thing and I
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cannot figure oh it's cuz of the sticker that's why I can't get it open now my
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phone's ringing what a disaster oh it's
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my parents I better get
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this just waiting for my little brother
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to go get the cordless so I thought I'd play with my
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cat hey finally they're having some problem with their internet so obviously
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that's my responsibility somehow and not
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the cable companies but whatever okay so so here we have a product guide which
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shows us some cases the half series The
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690 Advanced and basic this finally
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comes apart cuz I've got it figured out it was like taped over all of the
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different folds so they got all their coolers their GX series power
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supplies Cooler Master makes a lot of stuff actually this is a really good
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cooler I unboxed this at some point it's like super cheap and super awesome and
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they got all their fans other more different fans and finally a osten there
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it is so that's the one that we're actually looking at
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today so here on the side we find not
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much on the other side we find also not much here we go here are all the
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features five angles so you can adjust it depending on the ergonomics hence the
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name ergostand it has movable anti-slip
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props mad props yo cooling pad okay
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that's what it is it has a four port USB hub which we mentioned before with USB
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cable clips so it has cable management so you can hide the USB cables then
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you've got cable management handles nice
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14 cm speed adjustable silent fan you
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get laser vision and it also has a desktop it has desktop cooling
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application I don't know what that means but I'm sure it means something
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ergonomic design more about ergonomic design okay it's made of metal mesh
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plastic and rubber it's the oh the fan
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fan speed and fan noise so the fan speed is 15 D it is a rifle bearing
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fan it runs at 700 to 1400 RPM and it
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has a 40,000 hour meantime between failure let's get this box opened up
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here I'm already zoomed out the maximum okay I'm going to stand a little bit to
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the side so that my uh my light can shine so let's see what we got for
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accessories in here okay first we have the USB
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cable is this thing still not focusing
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hold on give me a sec I think I'm having technical difficulties here oh no there
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we go let's focusing now okay so here's the USB cable it is a USB a to mini
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cable very very very standard okay
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nothing exceptional there then we have a users manual along with the
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specifications this probably has pretty much everything we already saw on the
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outside warranty information thank you for purchasing uh the warranty shall be
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void if uh okay I can't see how long it is
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but you could always pause it and read through if you want there we go and now
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let's have a look at the Ergo stand itself it comes nicely packed in foam we
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got some C here that we're just going to undo and then we got these whatever they
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are oh these look like they might be oh
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These are nice so you got like a kind of a it's a heavy plastic and it's got kind
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of a matte finish and then it's got these little rubber feet on the bottom of it they feel very quality you know
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how you just sometimes you pick something up and you go yeah that feels
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quality well that does and the stand is
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not too bad itself actually so let's see
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first of all we're going to take this foamy bit off here I may end up needing
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that manual to be perfectly honest okay
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so let's figure out how to adjust these right now I do not know I'm going
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to go ahead and adjust my camera though so that I can sort of look down a little
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bit more W okay there we go that was easy so
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you just kind of snap it just like that on the side you will find uh volume
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control probably fan speed yeah fan speed you'll find a power button as well
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as a plug so this is powered by USB and I I huh that's funny I don't see
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that cable interesting okay well maybe this
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one was just missing it or maybe it's not included I don't actually know let's
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go around to the other side where we will find a the USB hub which is not a
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powered Hub unless you plug in power and then also a uh USB cable so oh okay okay
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I get it I get it it becomes a powered Hub if you plug in power here which you
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do not have to do and it can just be a non-powered hub that's fine okay so
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here's how you do all of the five different adjustments okay so you all you have to
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do is you just kind of put it up like this and then you move this metal bar
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which feels very quality by the way and then you can set it at five different
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angles depending on how you want it to rest so I would probably go with this
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angle if it was me and then we've also got these feet here which I will have
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have to figure out how they work H oh I
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get it I get it I get it here we go so these go in here and then they can be
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adjusted either this way or that way depending how big the notebook you want
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to put on here is so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and put them
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at the very maximum because the notebook
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that I'm going to put on here is a monster this is a 17in notebook which is
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the maximum that this thing can support I'm also going to do some temperature
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testing shortly here but I'm just going to go ahead oh man it's heavy hardly
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picked that up with one hand so I'm going to go ahead and put that on the
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stand there we go yeah that like barely fits on there
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so you can see that it's a little bit over the edges on either side but not
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unreasonably so I got access to all of my ports and then here I'm just I'm
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actually going to just take this and like put it on the floor or something
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cuz no no I can probably adjust it here okay so I'll take it and put it on its
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side right here there we go so now we can sort of see the angle that we're
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sitting at so this is designed so that when you sit at your desk you can have
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your wrists at a comfortable angle when you're using the keyboard or I mean less
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comfortable but I guess if you wanted to watch a movie or something this would be
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ideal my guess okay there's your USB hub
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so you can access that around the back of the laptop here's your cable
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management handles is what they call them so you can run the cables through
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there no problem and then uh the fan is
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actually right here right in the middle so it's going to blow let me see how
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compatible it is with my laptop it will blow directly onto my GPU fan but we're
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only going to get incidental air flow on the CPU fan which is here
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right forget it it's right there right
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under there so yeah I'll do some temperature testing shortly and thank
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you for checking out my unboxing of the
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not pal Ergo stand from Cooler Master