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I find the high temperature of my 755cx somewhat alarming and it sounds like it might be worse with the 760. I had thought the purpose of the feet was (a) to tilt the keyboard and (b) to provide airflow under the machine for cooling. The 760 has a tilt mechanism under the keyboard itself and got rid of the feet, so I thought they had somehow made it run cooler. I *do* use my 755cx on my lap all the time, usually while sitting up in bed. The high temperature isn't that uncomfortable but it does make me fear for the machine's reliability. I use one of the Silicon Sports palmrest/laptop pads or else the heat would really get to me. Once I tried putting the sleeping bag I use as a blanket over my lap and the laptop on top of that, but then the laptop got *really* hot (the sleeping bag is a good insulator so there was *nowhere* for the heat to go, not even into the air). Right now my 755cx is on loan to a co-worker for a trip, and I'm typing (in bed) on an old Toshiba T1000SE, which is almost the ideal laptop for this type of use. It's a shame nobody makes anything like this any more. The T1000SE is an 8086 based laptop with a very good keyboard, nonvolatile ramdisk, one floppy, and *no* hard drive to make noise. Plus, it runs very cool. (The most annoying noise comes from the LCD backlight, maybe I need to squirt some RTV sealant into it or something). You'd think with modern technology they could make something comparable but nicer, but they keep messing it up :-(.