bottom area means except screen is turning so much hot while playing Instagram reels and loses battery so quickly
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Original Title: MacBook Air m1 getting hot
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 26.0
Not unexpected. M-series Macbook Airs have no cooling fans so we see a lot of heat complaints here. Gaming and watching videos are high-demand operations that work the CPU and GPU harder than lesser tasks. Hard work makes more internal heat.
"...bottom area means except screen is turning so much hot..."
See:
Keep your Mac laptop within acceptable operating temperatures - Apple Support
If you are leaving other apps open while watching videos, that also increases heating. Your M1 Macbook Air is convection-cooled like the first iMacs— that also ran hot. Hot air needs to escape and much of it has to exit through the keyboard. For that reason, NO keyboard covers!
Not unexpected. M-series Macbook Airs have no cooling fans so we see a lot of heat complaints here. Gaming and watching videos are high-demand operations that work the CPU and GPU harder than lesser tasks. Hard work makes more internal heat.
"...bottom area means except screen is turning so much hot..."
See:
Keep your Mac laptop within acceptable operating temperatures - Apple Support
If you are leaving other apps open while watching videos, that also increases heating. Your M1 Macbook Air is convection-cooled like the first iMacs— that also ran hot. Hot air needs to escape and much of it has to exit through the keyboard. For that reason, NO keyboard covers!
MacBook Air M1 overheating and draining battery rapidly
