Snow Leopard on 1st Gen MacBook Air is making it overheat.

Still have 7 of 80 gig available, but the entire bottom of the shell gets very hot and the processing slows to a crawl.  Suggestions?  Thank you.

esoltau wrote:
Still have 7 of 80 gig available, but the entire bottom of the shell gets very hot and the processing slows to a crawl.  Suggestions?  Thank you.
Clear some space on your disc or get a bigger Hard Drive for a start. It is a rule of thumb to have at least 15% of your Drive empty for good performance.You are running well under that, so I would be pretty sure that is your problem.
Your heading also says Snow Leopard but your profile says Lion.
Simply have to move some data (quite a bit - music, pics or movies) to an external drive if you can't afford a larger drive.
Good Luck
Pete

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