Calling all Dell D610 laptop owners...
How hot does your laptop run?
I noticed mine was frequently exceeding 60 degrees Celsius, and placed a service call the other day and Dell didn't bat an eyelid in replacing the heat-sink and fan (despite the fan working). The temperature is now being reported as 52 degrees.
Just curious as to what's "normal". The temperature can be obtained from /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature or /proc/i8k (if the i8k module is loaded, or via I8kfanGUI under Windows. I note that the temperature is reported as only 43 degrees under Windows, which makes me wonder whether Linux is misreporting it, or is causing it to run hot...