dee_can if its under a year old you might call support and talk to them about that. Imagine you are still under warranter. Think if I had a hot laptop maybe the first thing I'd be looking in 'Task Manager for CPU percentage use to see if something is constantly using lots of CPU cycles. - Right click blank area on the bottom task bar and you'll see it, then 'Show for all users' followed by the 'Processes tab and click on the CPU heading a couple times to bring highest use to the top. You might look for a program that shows temps,, one of the popular freewares is called 'SiS' 'System Information for Windows' shows the temps in it. My Toshiba seems to mostly have a CPU temp of around 135-136F when just browsing around and a fan speed of 100 RPM which is its lowest & for sure quietest, cant hear anything. I can hardly feel air movement by the CPU vent, not even on my leg hairs like my last Toshiba used to occasionally cause that sudden bug crawling sensation.

Yes, Google Chrome is a browser. No, you do not have to make it your default browser to use it. Just click on the icon for Chrome to open it, same as you do for IE. But you can have whichever one you want as your default and still use either one.

it truly is amazing how young they are learning to use this extremely valuable machine. I can only imagine where I would be if I had had the opportunity to have a computer at such a young age. How fortunate they are to have the world at their fingertips. Your grandson is a very lucky boy to have you around to get him his very own computer and he will love the apple, not as many infection worries there too, although more recently there have been some aimed at apple but not as many as for windows. I think that is one of the reasons so many of the small netbooks and the one pc per child versions have linux pre-installed on them, no infection worries and what a great head start to learn linux so young. Here I am in my gray hair days learning linux! It sure would have been easier when more of my brain cells were co-operating LOL but I figure I am better off exercising them than letting them laze around.

In my limited experience, 3G is often problematic. It's best not to use it unless you must, like in the car, or for those features which only work on 3G. It also saves you bandwidth to use wifi when available. It's possible that your 3G was running slow and timing out before the information made it to the site. Where I live, theoretically we have 3G on all networks and 4G on some, but in reality we're usually on the Edge network or equivalent, which makes it more or less impossible to use it for anything more than text email.