This is my first laptop and it is so hot that if I touch it, it burns my hand. I just got it last year. Is it supposed to be hot? I never have it on my lap or in the bed, only on my desk. After I used it some time it gets hot. Not so hot that it bothers my skin, but still hot. Is it normal that my laptop gets hot? How to do something to fix laptop getting hot?

Why a laptop gets hot?
As we know, laptop getting hot or laptop overheating is a common problem because CPU chips in laptop computers gain an increased number of transistors. Some of laptop hot problem comes from laptop bad batteries. But if the problem isn't a bad battery, what's making these laptops so hot?

There are three major reasons why laptops have more of an overheating problem than desktops. Programs that cause a computer to run at high capacity often leads to laptop overheating, such as gaming, etc. Another reason is that laptops is blocked air vents. Then air vents are not efficiently to release heat and cool itself. Overheating can happen when a fan isn't working properly or there's some other malfunction. Besides, the software that operates the cooling system on the laptop may cause the overheating of laptop.

Next, let's find out how to help our laptops keep cool on their own. It's necessary to go buy a laptop cooler to do so. However, if you do not have one, try taking below tips:

Firstly, elevate the rear part of the laptop and give the fans some extra breathing room so that the hot air can dissipate naturally, like a book. Please check your internal cooling fans underneath your latpop. Or going to an air-conditioned room is another way to cool your laptop.

Secondly, check to make sure there isn't dust clogging the fan vents, take a air can and spray out all the dust. And use an aerosol air duster, or can of compressed air, to blow dust from the air intake vents.

Thirdly, turn off or close process-intensive programs that use your laptop's processing power and memory a lot, such as Photoshop, high-graphic games, etc. So if you can help it, close like this programs or just use them one at a time.

Fourthly, adjust your BIOS settings becasue most laptops have features built into the system BIOS that allow fan speed, CPU temperature alarms, and other settings to be adjusted.

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