I bought a Dell XPS labtop 2 days ago and i was testing it. I left it in my room to do some data transfer aprx 40gb. 2 hours later i came back, i smell some kind of burning smell. It was not very bad and my labtop was not SUPER hot, but was somewhat hot. My question is did i just burned something in my labtop (CPU, hardrive, etc?) or it is the new computer smell? My labtop still works fine, i didn't encounter any problems, but that smell just kinda freak me out if i should refund/exchange it, or i can keep it w/o any problems in the future. My friend who is a technichan who works for dell say MOST dell products have problems. Please comment.

could just be the plastic being affected by the new heat or the dust or something causing it to smell should slowly go away if your worried ask your dell technician buddy or on the free help telephone service for XPS Pentium 4 3.2ghz @ 3.5ghz Nvdia4 Mx4000 OC@ 350/500

Labtop's are meant to be used in a lab environment...I suggest your return in & exchange for a laptop

Exchange it or better yet get your money back asap. you shouldn't be smelling any burning laptop or not. I have heard more overheating problems with Intels mobile processors then I have ever heard from AMD mobile processors. My advice is to get an Turion 64 or a Turion 64 X2 laptop. Turions run cooler and the newer MT-xx series run even at lower watts 25w to be exact then the older ML-xx series. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7800GT SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Another labtop with problems. That's two in the last few days. I am never going to get a labtop.

Yeah but they are all Intel Pentium M related. makes you wonder about their mobile processor line as of late. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7800GT SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI