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Originally Posted by serialk11r
It's under warranty, insist that they fix it (I'm assuming you already checked it's not caked with dust).
On a somewhat related note, I have a strong suspicion high operating temperatures makes laptops inherently less reliable than desktops. My Thinkpad X220 became practically unusable at year 6 with the CPU fan always on maximum and the simplest tasks taking forever. I've seen this happen to all kinds of notebooks, but much faster to cheapo ones and refurbished laptops, while my desktop machine ran without a hitch for many years on the same motherboard and CPU.
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I typically find computers get "slow" when they have a silent hard drive failure. For whatever reason, seek times get outrageous. Hard drive usage shows very high in task manager even though throughput is low.
Since you're seeing the CPU fan maxed, it might just be thermally throttling because the heatsink is packed with dust and hair. Either way, this are fixable issues.