Fearmongering aside, from what I've seen, the reviews say it gets warm but not hot. Tom's Guide broke out the thermal gun and said the hot spot on the bottom o

Fearmongering aside, from what I've seen, the reviews say it gets warm but not hot. Tom's Guide broke out the thermal gun and said the hot spot on the bottom of the 13 inch model was about four degrees F above normal body temps while running Cinebench on a loop. The 15 inch one got about 9 degrees F above body temp. You certainly wouldn't need to worry about melting your table.