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How do you mean that its overheating? My GF says the same about her laptop, but its just cooling itself off. Does yours freeze or start slowing down a lot? Are you monitoring temps and see that they're beyond your CPU acceptable range (usually 90C, IIRC)?
Yeah, the system totally slows down quite a bit, everything from the browser to my IDE uses quite a bit of time to load.
If you are seeing temps out of spec for your CPU, its not unheard of for thermal paste to dry or even shift if the laptop has been through some chassis strain. Could be worth a careful examination.
This could also be done to the RAM filling up and/or high I/O activity of the disk. I suggest to investigate these possibilies as well
Can you hear your laptop's fan speed up when it's overheating? Linux on my old laptop couldn't control the fan speed so it was always overheating. When I figured out how to manually set it to maximum, it overheated much less.