just bouncing along from my previous thread... ive just dismantled my laptop, cleaned out 5 decades worth of dust from the heatsink/heatpipe thingy and my cpu is now at 37C, and hdd at 38C. ambient room is 20C.
hurrah!
only problem is i dont have a hand warmer anymore

. oh, and the thermal paste connecting the heatpipe to the processor block has dried and gone crusty... is that a bad thing?