my laptop (toshiba satellite A50) does.

I mean, it's definitely not the energy thing, that's ok now...but it still heats a lot at times. Does virtual memory have something to do with that?

If there's another thread answering this question...I missed that one. Sorry.

Not really, I mean any hard drive activity is going to cause heat to build but not enough to cause a problem if everything in the laptop is working correctly.