[donkeylazy456]

I remember Intel MBP 16" suffered VRM overheat and the method that transfer heat to bottom shell case by attaching thermal pad was there too.

Sometime Apple intentionally ignores engineering problems when they want to push some product design aspects.

[simulator5g]

On the other hand I see a very hot bottom case as an engineering problem that Apple solved by not using a thermal pad. Sometimes higher clock speeds don't really mean much for the user experience. For example I can set my gaming laptop to run in eco mode, or turbo mode, and the performance with simple tasks like web browsing is roughly the same. In these sorts of situations, its better to let the chip slow down a bit to preserve my thighs.

[donkeylazy456]

The problem was mbp retail product couldn't provide performance processor can do. I am not saying they needed to apply thermal pad to transfer heat via bottom case. They should provide proper VRM cooling solution at that time.

actually, the throttle people suffered also can interfere normal use-case not only for power hogging scenario.