How hot is too hot for a laptop

My new dv7t Quad edition laptop was recently delivered and I am wondering about the heat issue that others have mentioned.  The computer does not get too hot to touch but there is warm air coming out of the vent almost all the time. When I have several programs running the fan seems to come on fairly often, which I understand is what it should do.
How do you tell if the laptop is too hot?  Is some heat inevitable for an i7 processor?
I really like all the features of the computer but I want to make sure it is ok before the 21 day return period has gone by.
Thanks.
Jack
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To my knowledge, Maximum allowed temperature for Core i7 is 100°C and recommended is 80°C. If it heats up more, the CPU will enable thermal throttling, i.e. the Vcore and clock frequency multiplier will be forced down to 12x. This feature protects the processor die against dangerous overheating.
The warm air flow from vents is by design of the notebook. That is the specific reason for having the vents.
When ever the load on the system increases, the temperature increases. When the temperature inside the system increases, the speed of the fan increases.
Please refer the following weblink for more information:
http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/02/26/intel-core-i7-temperatures/
I am an HP employee.
Regards,
Vidya
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