Laptop getting hot

nanokitten

Thanks for all your help everybody. I bit the bullet and performed some surgery and managed to remove a massive lump of dust from the vent at the back and round the fan. Given the keyboard a good clean whilst I was in there. CPU temp now fairly steady at 40 ish degrees.
Very impressed with Dells service manual, http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1501/en/sm_en/index.htm
- nice detailed instructions shame its not a pdf like the owners manual, took me ages to print out the relevant bits.
Now performing some processor heavy tasks to test it out.
Think I will do a regular squirt with a can of air up the vents from now on, it was pretty manky in there.
Cheers all.