I'd spend a few dollars more (or perhaps not; I see Tiger has some for $10 US) and buy a SATA drive enclosure (presuming your laptop has a SATA drive; those made in the last 7 or so years do).  Then you can use it as an external drive to keep stuff backed up...

 

Quote - FWIW, a cpu frying in a laptop is a common thing - they do get really hot. I had one up and die from the same thing myself last year (I'm still in mourning...lol).

Our laptops get a layer of felt built up on the CPU heat exchanger after a while.  The easiest way to deal with it is once a week to blow into the exhaust port (with the machine off ), which blows the junk out the bottom.  If it gets too bad, I have to pop off the keyboard and remove the fan to clean it out...

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