> it seems to have become urban folklore that laptops turn on in bags, overheat and get damaged My previous laptop cooked its screen like that. Some of the lay

> it seems to have become urban folklore that laptops turn on in bags, overheat and get damaged My previous laptop cooked its screen like that. Some of the layers warped into a wavy pattern visible through the backlight. My Windows work laptop has a low-power CPU, so the danger is minimal, but still it consistently goes full throttle when asleep.