Oh yes. I guess it depends on the kind of work you do. If you are just browsing, watching videos and stuff, you probably won’t need a cooling pad but if you’re on heavy duty things, you can actually hear the laptop struggling to cope with the load. It starts making weird sounds. It also gets heated up, which you can feel by the touch. I use a laptop to run multiple concurrent apps, that run for hours together, in my line of work. During those times, I sit in a temperature controlled room and run two mini fans, just to cool the lappie off. It is probably overkill….but I don’t want to lose a costly lappie, just because I was careless and ran it ragged. I have no clue about the product you’ve listed though…i just use an AC and two mini fans.