I'm back on Linux as my main box (Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop) -- wiped all traces of WinXP/Dell utility partitions and have SuSE 9.3 Pro loaded on. Yea! (Of course, there is a little Apache/Samba/Folding@Home and SETI Search box as well as the Smoothwall firewall box at home.) I ran SuSE 8.2 Pro (boxed set) on an old laptop before it died - love SuSE! I've noticed some heat build up issues since the change to SuSE: tried using Grip in KDE and the rip and encode got part way through, then SuSE reported immediate shutdown because of heat. Happened two times on different days. I was at home with the swamp cooler on. I haven't checked the laptop's exhaust fans yet. So, I've loaded XFCE 4.2 on and things run much cooler -- verify this with #cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/trip_points -- gives max temp allowed then do #cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature to report current temp. Fascinating to watch in KDE with Firefox open on a site like Yahoo with lots of animated GIFs -- big spike! Yes, ACPId is running and I have the appropriate options checked in the different window managers. I've heard some scuttlebutt that Dell laptops have issues with overheating. Anyone have any experiences with this? or any further tweaks I can apply. I might be picking up one of the laptop cooling fans that sit under the body -- are these any help? Any problems with the fans being moved to fast from these extra cooling units? TIA -- your comments are greatly appreciated. -*-Bill