A Cool Laptop is a Happy Laptop
Laptops have very tiny, delicate components that deform or melt when the computer's temperature rises. Overheating may happen when you use your computer to the limits of its capacity...like trying to play a game with complex graphics on an Pentium. When vents are blocked. Or when the computer is getting old. Your laptop may become slow, you may be unable to open more than a few programs (maybe only 1!) at a time, freeze, or, in the worst cases, it may just shut down and reboot at the peak temperature. And one day..it may stop working...its little circuits will have melted! So we must do all possible to keep laptops happily cool. If you notice your laptop is hot to touch, suddenly shutting down or getting slow...get it checked and cleaned. The usual culprit is dust clogging the vents. Cleaning it will restore at least some of venting capacity and prolong your laptop's life. Never put your laptop over a blanket or anything else that blocks its vents. ...