Acer Ferrari 3200 - Lemon?

My work laptop is an Acer "Ferrari" 3200 model. We got it as it was a factory return due to the box being slightly scruffy - the machine itself hadn't been opened. For the price, the spec was great.
Things were fine until one day the machine kept locking when accessing the disk... a scan through the event log showed it was having lots of read errors. "OK", I thought, "hard disks fail...". So, we got a new disk under warranty. Things were fine for a few more months until eventually it refused to boot one day. Some of the LED's came on, but everything else was blank. No post, no display. Sent it back - out of warranty now - and it turned out the motherboard was dead. This was replaced. 2 weeks after it returned, the second hard disk failed!. We bought a new one (updgrading to a 100Gb) in the process and all was well once more. Then, less than 3 months later, the motherboard died again! So, it's now on its 3rd motherboard, and 3rd hard disk.

Doing some Googling, it seems I'm not the only one. Basically the machine has a bit of a problem overheating which leads to premature failure of parts. It's a shame, because it's actually quite a nice machine - fairly powerful, a good hi-res screen, built in wireless and bluetooth, a slot loading dvd writer...

I'll update the blog should anything else explode...