Disappointed with my purchase
After having bought 2 times on this very site a good Zalman with no less than 4 USB ports available, external power supply AND dedicated USB connection (which made a nice USB HUB) I had a hard time finding a similar one for my DELL 17". Quite simply, they don't make them any more, it's a maximum of 2 ports, 1 of which is taken up by the USB power cable... The icing on the cake is that instead of putting these ports at the back, which allows access from an equal distance if the USB port dedicated to power is on the left or right of the laptop. Well no, on this model the 2 ports are on the left and my port is on the right, so the cable is too short to go all the way round, fortunately I'm using an external keyboard, otherwise I'd have had the wire under my hands. As I probably said in the very first comment, I can't understand (having tried them AND returned others on a third party site) how they can claim that it's good for a 17", when it protrudes on all sides: I had to lower the front spacers to the maximum so that it cooled the back of the cover, where I felt it was heating up. Otherwise, like the others, it cools well (I can see it in the temperatures indicated by HDD Sentinel Pro (it was mainly the SSD that was getting hot), but it's a bit noisy. We'll have to see how long it lasts, but if I'm still going to have this PC (maybe I'll try the Windows 11 adventure next year) I'm going to get a 19-inch to make sure the fans cover the entire surface of the laptop's base (which, as a reminder, has ONLY 17 inches).
