I did this to mine. It no longer throttles under any type of regular use. I did an hour long encode using Final Cut Pro and the hottest it got was 83C. The hott

I did this to mine. It no longer throttles under any type of regular use. I did an hour long encode using Final Cut Pro and the hottest it got was 83C. The hottest the battery got was 44C, so it is doing a fine job of dumping the heat outside of the device. The bottom cover does get hot, but I don't keep it on my lap. I don't do any gaming with it, but I tested Rise of the Tomb Raider and it handled it very well without throttling. My XPS turned into a leaf blower in seconds with the same game and still managed to throttle at times. I'd recommend the MB Pro M1 if you want to do longer projects. I'm pretty sure the MBA would become heatsoaked after encoding for a few hours. The Pro has a fan. It's a good mod that takes a few minutes to do and really delivers. Apple really killed it with the M1. I have the base model. Affinity Photo is another app that has been optimized for the M1, and in some operations manages to be faster than my 8 core/16 thread Ryzen 3700 with 32GB of ram. It simply curb stomps my XPS in every single performance metric while being totally silent and never throttling under what I use it for. Safari has also been tuned for the M1, and it is the fastest browsing machine I have ever used.