the incident happened very recently. Could indeed be a new model – OTOH given that Dell has a history of power supply design weaknesses you would think they would have been more careful.
that said this problem can befall any company TBH if they have weaknesses in circuit board design.
There is a phenomenal amount of power used in most IT equipment; it is low voltage but high current and if the power rails short circuit at any point things do have a habit of getting very hot….
I have seen companies sell equipment costing hundreds of thousands of pounds to professional customers without adequate testing (leading to some spectactular failures including PSU short-circuits, customers businesses being disrupted).
This is the way the market works- the early adopters are unpaid product testers. Its better TBH to buy last years model!
