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I'm not sure if this is true, but I have a faint feeling that the multicore processors aren't suitable for running Maple. One hypothesis is that Maple wasn't written to utilize all 8 threads, thus heavily strains a single one (which happens to run at a relatively low clock speed: 2.0 GHz is the highest I've seen in laptops). Since that particular CPU core does all the heavy work, the entire CPU gets rather hot as a whole (mine has reached over 90 Celcius JUST running idle Maple).

All that or laptops just really really suck at heat dissipation.