I've got one other question on this (somewhat hot) laptop issue, which I'm
still trying to investigate. If one turns off all extraneous devices in
BIOS, does that in any way impact the total power consumption (and thus
heat) at the hardware level? I'm just wondering if disabling all the
devices not being used in BIOS (and perhaps windows), such as Bluetooth,
Serial and Parallel Ports, PC card ports, docking tray, etc, will literally
(at the hardware level) turn OFF some IC chips, and thus reduce the overall
temps and power consumption.