update: I have been clamping my MacBooks in a plastic upright vertical stands and I had my bloated battery replaced and the one thing I noticed is that my MacBook is now overheating while docked and clamped closed vertically. A message would pop up saying that my system is now degraded and running slowly and I should close one of my apps (which is infuse which plays movies). SOOOO I took my heat sink and my aluminum vertical stand and placed the heat sink against the bottom of my MacBook and the other side of the heatsink directly against the metal aluminum vertical stand... Added some wedges to ensure that my MacBook is firmly flat and against the heatsink.... and ran my app again.... and voila... no more overheating... no more degradation.... such a simple solution. So I will be buying another 4 more heatsinks for future use. HIGHLY recommended!! original review: I had no idea what I was looking for when I found these heatsinks but when I saw them I thought they were perfect for keeping my USB-C hubs cool while being clamped within vertical stands. I have 4 USB-C Docks for 4 MacBooks all routed to one HDMI switch to output to a 4k HDR TV. When I first connected my docks to my MacBooks the docks were strewn all over the place and it took me quite a while to come up with a solution and that was to clamp them into the vertical stands that I use for my MacBooks The only problem with clamping them within vertical stands was the heat being trapped within. Thus the heat sinks clamped alongside the USB-C hubs really cool the hubs down. Now when I touch the hubs they are no longer hot to the touch and most likely will last a lot longer than a year.
using them on MacBook and on Twelve South USB-C Docks clamped inside an aluminum vertical stands
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2021
update: I have been clamping my MacBooks in a plastic upright vertical stands and I had my bloated battery replaced and the one thing I noticed is that my MacBook is now overheating while docked and clamped closed vertically. A message would pop up saying that my system is now degraded and running slowly and I should close one of my apps (which is infuse which plays movies). SOOOO I took my heat sink and my aluminum vertical stand and placed the heat sink against the bottom of my MacBook and the other side of the heatsink directly against the metal aluminum vertical stand... Added some wedges to ensure that my MacBook is firmly flat and against the heatsink.... and ran my app again.... and voila... no more overheating... no more degradation.... such a simple solution. So I will be buying another 4 more heatsinks for future use. HIGHLY recommended!! original review: I had no idea what I was looking for when I found these heatsinks but when I saw them I thought they were perfect for keeping my USB-C hubs cool while being clamped within vertical stands. I have 4 USB-C Docks for 4 MacBooks all routed to one HDMI switch to output to a 4k HDR TV. When I first connected my docks to my MacBooks the docks were strewn all over the place and it took me quite a while to come up with a solution and that was to clamp them into the vertical stands that I use for my MacBooks The only problem with clamping them within vertical stands was the heat being trapped within. Thus the heat sinks clamped alongside the USB-C hubs really cool the hubs down. Now when I touch the hubs they are no longer hot to the touch and most likely will last a lot longer than a year.