360's have died in all the walmarts in my town. They seem to last about a week or so. They survive in BB tho.

Guess its the case they keep it in.
I'd expect it to throw out a lot of heat. As long as most of that heat is escaping. As for the top warming up...I'd expect that too because of the huge copper heatsink it has inside. The 360 I was looking at in my local Gamestop looked was cool. I could be crazy here but I thought that the case they had the 360 in (The one with the Samsung LCD TV display and 360 stand) was refrigerated somehow. I know this sounds ridiculous but when I put my hand at the bottom of it it was very cool. Not like room temperature cool but more like car air conditioning cool.
well maybe that was just where teh whole unit sucked its air in from. that woudl make it reasonable cool