ok this is just for my curiosity so hope you dont mind, i can find all kinds of stuff on how heatsinks work but not specifically notebook types, this is mine http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-PAVILION-ZT1...ryZ31534QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem just wondering how the fan pulling air through the grills is doing anything for the cpu, anyways im really tired and feeling dumb...
Inside a laptop is a small heatblock with a heatpipe (like in fancy CPU coolers, but there's just one rather than several) and this leads all the way to a small heatsink at the back, which sits next to a radial fan, which blows air through the heatsink and out of the laptop. This one's for a Toshiba Tecra but yours will be very similar:
