How to Clean the Dust Out of Your Laptop’s Heat Sink

Bluescrubby offers some great tips on how you can clean your laptop’s heat sink to extend your laptop’ life.

“If dust is blocking the air inlet and outlet and/or the heat sink, your computer may overheat. Symptoms of overheating include very hot air coming out of the outlets, an unusually hot base, or the computer suddenly shutting off for no apparent reason. If your computer doesn’t have a low enough setting for automatic shutoff due to overheating, the components inside may be damaged.”