As the title says... my laptop overheats a lot. During the winter it would overheat when the wife and I would watch movies on it while laying in bed. It would be laying on the sheets, so I just assumed it was blocked air flow. We bought a thing for it to sit on, which seemed to do the trick. Well now that's it been in the 70's(barely into the 80s a day or two) it's over heating a lot. It doesn't matter if the air flow is blocked or not. The CPU part of the laptop will almost burn you it's so hot.
The computer has the following:
1.6ghz Celeron M
512mb ram
My question is this:
Do you think upgrading the ram to a reasonable amount will take enough stress off the CPU to help with overheating? I was thinking of maybe grabbing a gig, maybe 2, to throw in here. I could also buy a slightly faster Pentium 4 to put in here also. I just didn't want to throw too much money into this laptop. I'd rather just wait and pick up a new laptop with a Core i3 or i5 at that point.
What do you guys think?