See, I have concerns similar to the OP. My idle is around 40 degrees Celsius for the package, but my temps get up to 99 Celsius while playing games. After an hour or two of gaming, the thick wood, commercial cubicle, I sit at could burn someone if they touched it. ASUS support told me these temps are normal. Really???? Isnt that some special cooler on this thing? Seems like a POS cooler to me. I want to RMA it, but afraid that asus wont take the RMA and reapply thermal paste or whatever the issue seems to be, and instead I'll just end up paying for shipping and being without my laptop for weeks or even months. No way is this normal though. Looks like I wont be buying an ASUS laptop again.