Cooling for an XPS 15 (L502x) laptop during Bitcoin Mining I would like to know exactly where I should put my extra cooling fans around my laptop so that I can more efficiently cool while I mine bitcoins.  I realize this is not optimal at the moment, but before I invest in a rig I want to try it out with my laptop (but without overheating anything of course).  Is there a reason why my CPU is getting so hot while my GPU is comfortable even while I'm GPU mining?

Location like top-right, bottom-right, etc (w/r/t looking down on keyboard) is very helpful.

Also, what would be the best way to cool the BitForce Jalapeno?  Could I just use a simple fan in a well ventilated area?
Mining on a GPU, especially on less powerful ones like the ones found in laptops is highly inefficient. You can find out exactly how much you can potentially earn or lose from various Bitcoin calculators, like mine for example.

If you are worried about overheating your laptop and just want to test what mining is all about, you could also lower your hashrate, for example by introducing pauses in the miner. Most mining software should be supporting this feature, so you ought to look at the documentation.

Hardware specific question are probably best asked on different StackExchanges. You could just ask "where is my GPU on my laptop and how best to cool it?"
, which isn't Bitcoin-specific.

And if you want to ask about cooling of BitForce Jalapeno, why not post a separate question with that topic? The more specific question, the better.