Intro:

    Although laptop coolers are nothing new to the enthusiast market, one would question the real necessity of them. I mean, if your laptop would get too hot, the whole 4 or 5 real manufacturers of laptops would catch that, and put in better cooling, right? But one could say that a cooler system will last longer, and perhaps be not as prone to crashes and lock-ups. Back on track here, this cooler is very unique in a few ways; it has a 4 port USB 2.0 Hub, adjustable fan speed, and it's AC powered!

    Also, in my last laptop cooler review, I couldn't come up with a real accurate way to check laptop temperatures. However, I have a new method this time around...


About Jetart:

    Since I hadn't heard of Jetart until recently, I thought I'd do a copy/paste of what they have on their website about themselves. I'd have to say that I am impressed about their potential future.

    "Jetart Technology has been established since 1989. In the early years, we started from ODM business for domestic and overseas customers.

     Our ODM business includes lines of computer peripherals, electronic parts and other relating products. Up to 1994, there were about 300 design projects have been accomplished.

     In view of ODM design background, we have very strong ability on product research & development. Until today, R & D department always plays a very important role at our company.

     Nowadays, Jetart is not only a cooling devices designer but also a very professional & well-organized manufacturer, as well as an exporter.

     For recent years, we focus on developing “Thermal Solution” relating products.

     All of our materials and production process are under very strict quality control procedures. Our capacity has come up to 12 millions pieces per year.

     Today, we brand “Jetart ”directly for all of our cooling products to secure the quality.

     Under all of Jetart staff’s efforts, our company has been granted “Certificate of Assessment” in accordance with ISO9001 standards in 2002.

     Our main business beliefs are Innovation & Quality Control.

     Customers’ needs always come to the first priority. New products are always designed and developed to meet with customers & market requirements.

     Up to today, we have a full line of computer cooling products, including:

     AMD & Intel CPU Coolers, Chip Coolers, HDD Coolers, System Coolers, Case Fans, DC Fans, LED Fans, Heatsinks, Chip Cooling Kits, Notebook Cooler & Watercooling.

     For more cooling products details, just look further right now."


About and features of the NP5000:

Packaging:

    The test unit was well packed in a cardboard box. I'll let your imagination fill that one in. Anyway, the features, as seen above are pictured on the box. Opening the box reveals the cooler itself wrapped in plastic.

(1) The box top	(3) Opening...

Accessories:

    Unpacking the contents of the box, you will be presented by what you see in picture 4 below. A 26 inch long USB cable, an AC power adapter with an ample 66 inch long cord that powers the fans and the USB hub, and lastly, a brief instruction page on the unit are all included. There is also a closer look at the power adapter in picture 5. If you misplace yours, or yours dies, blah, blah, blah, you can use that picture as reference to get you out of a jam. I know I have looked up things like that before on the internet, so that is why I am making note of it.

(4) Includes...	(5) Power...

A look at the cooler:

    First I'd like to point out the rubber feet that you can see on the left side of picture 6, and not on the right. It is very easily flipped over for those that need to hold their laptop in place better on the pad, if yours doesn't "stick" adequately for you. Great thinking there! Thank you. Moving to the bottom, we see things that we are accustomed to seeing in products like this. One is two feet, if you will, on the back of the unit to lift up the laptop so that the keyboard is more ergonomic to type on. Also, there are 4 rubber feet on the bottom of the unit to hold it on the desk, which work quite well.

    There are two compartments on the bottom of the unit. One is a great place to store your USB cable, which of course plugs into a USB port on your laptop, into the 4 port USB hub, if you didn't really catch that before. Though the compartments make more sense to another style of this cooler, I can see, and like having Jetart manufacture this in general, perhaps as a base unit, then adding or subtracting features as needed. This helps keep production costs down, and that my friend, is how they keep costs down to to us too. I'm sure you can figure out something to slip into the other storage unit. Maybe flash memory cards?

(6) The top of the cooler	(7) The bottom

A closer look at the bottom:

    Real quick here, picture 8 is the bottom sticker. Anyone find the missing "n"? Looking at the bottom of the fans we can see that they are UL listed for us in the United States. I have no idea what CSA is though... (Editor's note: Canadian Standards Association?)

(8) The sticker	(9) Fan close-up

Inside!:

    I couldn't resist taking out the Philips-head screws. Below is the overview, and I'll go into better detailed pictures below that are just as self explanatory.

(11) Inside...

(12) Power board	(13) Circuit board	(14) Yes, it is USB 2.0!

    I would like to focus in on the fan and the LEDs below. You can clearly see this cooler is powered by two 5V, 70 x 70 x 10mm Y.S. Tech fans. I don't really know what the two LED's that come out of the power board do. My hypothesis is that the two LED's tell if the fans are spinning. While not the end of the world I suppose if one of the fans quits, and you'd probably hear the fan bearings going out anyway. But that is a novel idea for those of you that will just leave something like this on their desk. You should be able to see the LED's with a peek under your laptop.

(15) Fan specs	(16) LED's

    The next page - The back of the unit, testing, and the conclusion.
 

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