lol. I only had this topic.. as I said my web pages didn't load properly and I thought it was the browser. 'Cos like I said at the top I kept having 'not responding' msg when using FF and with IE it kept closing down unexpectedly and have to report bugs all the time! ahh okay - that's probably why my performance is high and always hot air coming out. And also .. noisy.. But when I close some of the process that has more memory and not using the application, the noise [fan] quiets down and not as hot as it was. I'm on my bro's laptop - toshiba and just checked.. same with mine. 3GB that uses 64-bit.