Laptops need air!

Ever think your laptop is heating up too much? Do you, like most others, use your laptop on the knee? If so, the laptop is likely not to get proper ventilation. This can lead to expensive hardware problems, and even health problems.

Q. Why get a hot laptop computer?

Laptop A. Are pieces of precision equipment. Just imagine that a group of very clever engineers had to design a way to their goal of all equipment from desktop computers in the small space of a mobile body. When the laptop is on, the CPU and heat generation, just like your computer desktop. The difference is that removing this heat has to be handled differently.


 What happens is that gets direct heat away from the CPU using a metal structure to a series of copper copper fins. Copper is an excellent conductor of heat. Laptops generally contains the lower air intake. He sucked air blown past hot and copper fins, and to the rear or side of the laptop.
The laptop will be the hardest working, will create more heat through the CPU, so the air is hotter out. If you use your laptop on the knee that you have, or on a soft surface, there is a great chance that you withhold the amount of air under the laptop. Cool outside air without being absorbed, can not be of the laptop not remove enough heat fast enough, so heat builds up in the body laptop.

In extreme cases, it will get hot laptop to shut itself down, as a precaution. Do not do it so as not to damage internal components due to high temperature.

Can also occur if overheating becomes blocked your heatsink (copper fins) with fluff or dust. In this case you will need to take your laptop to a laptop repair shop to have it cleaned out. Or check out this post to learn how to clear the dust from yourself from your laptop.

Q: What can I do to avoid overheating?

A. Ideally, all the laptops that we use our office - but this takes some advantages and fun to use a computer. A simple solution is to use a laptop on a lap tray - you know those things that you used when eating in front of the TV?

Treat yourself to maybe something like this: Belkin Laptop CushDesk

Or maybe try something like this: Logitech laptop cooling N100 knee panel with fan

In conclusion - try to avoid using your laptop on soft surfaces and make sure that they get a lot of air!