I want to hear more about your wiener.
Also, my laptop idles around 60C, and it hurts to touch the trackpad.
That's really high! Every laptop I've ever owned has idled at 40-50C (T series Thinkpads). It gets around 60-75C when it's compiling world and kernel.
Heh, when I DO something it hits 90 or so. Way too hot.
It has nothing to do with ACPI, at least on mine, the fans are set to max. Even with a proper cooling pad it's no good. The only time it runs right is if I put it on a decent sized fan (like, a standup fan). I blame it on being a Dell.. I've heard a lot of bad things about Dells' cooling systems.
In Linux/FreeBSD, disable the fan in ACPI and then manually crank it up to the highest setting. I don't know how to do this from Linux but I'm sure it can be done (In FreeBSD, it's done with sysctl).
You also might want to define what ACPI considers
hot so it will properly throttle the processor. On Thinkpads,
hot isn't defined. I usually set it to 70C. There's also a critical temperature you can define. I set that to 90C.
The latter is a better solution than the former.