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If your laptop seems to be running hot lately, and it's eating lots of battery power, you might have some old cpufreq settings for gnome-power-manager in gconf. You can reset them to their (new) default values by running the following commands:

gconftool-2 -u /apps/gnome-power-manager/cpufreq_ac_policy
gconftool-2 -u /apps/gnome-power-manager/cpufreq_battery_policy

This brought the temperature of my laptop down, so the fan isn't running all day anymore, and as a side-effect, my battery doesn't give up after an hour anymore after an hour of doing almost nothing (I get the proper 2-3 hours out of it now).

The HP NW8240 that Canonical sent to me has a display resolution of 1920x1200 @ 15.4". After using it for a while, it seems like all my old screens (1280x800 @ 15.4" and 1024x768 @ 14" have huge pixels, and nothing will ever fit on the screen. And the fonts are not really as nice and crisp as they are on the HP.

I might be developing a high-resolution addiction..