Comment 174 for bug 22336

bmjbmj

I do not think that is the case. At all.

First of all, the dust bunnies clogging the fan intake does not justify the different thermal behaviour that that line of laptops shows under windows (works smoothly) and linux (massive overheating problems). What you saw there was windows correctly handling the CPU scaling, which doesn't happen in Ubuntu.

Second, I just got my acer aspire 1524 laptop from Acer's customer support, where it was repaired.The laptop went up in smoke and they've replaced the motherboard, graphics card and keyboard. It was as clean as it could be. Nonetheless, as soon as I got it I tried to install Kubuntu and as it was expected it crashed due to overheating. There were no dust bunnies nor any spec of dust inside the laptop and yet, the overheating problem persists. And yes, that problem doesn't happen in windows. Again.