I've never had that problem until I bought my current laptop about 2 years ago. Gnome 3 seems to make things worse because of the 3D effects (switching between

I've never had that problem until I bought my current laptop about 2 years ago. Gnome 3 seems to make things worse because of the 3D effects (switching between vim and Firefox seems enough to turn the fan on). I'm Ardour user and almost in every recording session I get at lest one safety shutdown because of the temperature. It's very frustrating! I've never used Windows on that laptop, so I can't compare, but I always thought the hardware was to blame. Yesterday I was preparing a external disk and during Debian Squeeze installation the laptop had to shutdown twice because of temperature, so now I'm not sure it's just a hw issue. Looks like something is definitely wrong. EDIT: well, surprisingly I never tried to google the problem (I know, I know), and apparently there are lots of reports of that laptop model overheating with no reason. Great :(