[Detrytus]

I'm running Windows (ARM) virtual machine on M1 Air, and it's constantly thermally throttled. It was hitting 95 Celsius degrees sometimes. I even bought one of those cooling pads with three fans, to make up for the lack of cooling in the laptop itself, so it is now down to 65 Celsius degress. Makes my life little more bearable, but I'm switching to M3 Macbook pro (with proper cooling) ASAP.

[deagle50]

Add a thermal pad to connect the heatsink to the back cover and the thermal throttling will go away. Tons of tutorials on Youtube and it takes 5 minutes. I did it on my M1 Air and it doesn't go above 85-90C now.