Melting or burning smell while updating firmware

[James3]

I did not say it was a design issue.

There are threads like this that led to my statement about overheating when the fan air intake/outflow is blocked. I.e. In a backpack:

[SOLVED] FW16 Gen 1 almost set itself on fire due to waking up from suspend in a bag in flight

I have a FW16 Gen 1 ordered Nov 2023 with OG battery. I was flying today, closed laptop as usual and stuck it in bag after checking that the fans died and it appeared to be asleep. In the airplane I felt the bag was warm so I went to check it - apparently it woke up and didn’t go back to sleep. It was smoking hot with fans blaring. I also noticed that the battery has puffed up distorting the mouse pad. Thankfully I was able to shut it off hard, let it cool off and arrived at the destination safe…