So, a friend of mine messaged me a few days ago, panicking that their laptop was “trying to cook itself alive.” They said even running a few browser tabs and Spotify made the fan sound like it was preparing for takeoff. The keyboard had gotten so warm it felt like typing on a heating pad. Naturally, I put on my IT support hat and asked the standard first question: “Did you try restarting it?” Because, of course, that’s the sacred tech support ritual. After a few restarts (and some dramatic sighing on their end), I decided to take a deeper look. Turns out, the poor thing wasn’t dying—it was suffocating. My friend had been using it exclusively on the bed, blocking the vents like they were trying to smother the CPU in its sleep.

So, we got to work: cleaned out the vents with compressed air, next, set it up on a desk. Applied new thermal paste (thank you, YouTube University) and then added a cooling pad for good measure. A few minutes later … boom. The jet engine went silent, temperatures dropped, and peace was restored.
Moral of the story :-) Laptops need air too. Let them breathe, and they’ll love you back (or at least stop burning your fingertips)