But what about those with T8xxx and T9xxx or P9xxx that have not been sold? None are on sale anymore... I suppose they didn't make a lot of them in the first place, but they have to go somewhere...

I think 70-80C while playing games is quite good temp... it can depend on lots of things. Many laptops with C2D have only 60+ when playing games, but yours is the faster T series so it should be warmer. Plus, this is the Dell XPS 16.

Yeah my laptop is usually raised as it is on top of a plastic sheet (aka cooler). The last time I tried raising my old laptop above the table uniformly by 6cm it did not change the temp much... but I could feel the heat blasting (Pentium M, Inter GC, Dell Latitude).

So what I am really interested in is, does the XPS 16 allow the use of software to tweak the fan speeds? Sad that my current lappy can't... my father's XPS M1330 also can't... so I believe the XPS 16 also can't... if you could modify the fan speed then it will cool temps by a huge amount.

What I heard is that the XPS 16 has a really strong fan so it tries to keep the body cool.

hlow user of XPS16 here.. i accidentally deleted my recovery partiton.. any idea of restoring it out?

How do I turn off McAfee if I have to because it is detecting some of my keygens as virus.

On top of that, just want to ask if it has been activated, does it mean from the day it activate till 15 mths later, I cannot deactivate it or anything like that?