MacBook Air 13.3 "2015 heater?

I recently got a macbook air 13.3 "with a 128 GB of memory and a processor 8 GB of Ram, and I noticed when I perform certain tasks, such as minecraft, the left side of the computer gets very hot, and even the keys heat. They heat up quite significantly and I fear it will damage them, is it? Is this normal?

It is perhaps natural to play this game.

Runaway applications can shorten the battery life, affect performance and increase the heat and fan acti...

Before Mavericks

Open the activity monitor in the Utilities folder.  Select all processes in the drop process .  Click the % CPU column heading twice to display in descending order.  If find you a process that uses a large amount of time processor (> = 70,) then select the process, and then click the quit icon in the toolbar.  Click the force quit button to kill the process.  See if that helps.  Don't forget to mention the name of the runaway process, so you can find the cause of the problem.

Mavericks and later versions

Open the activity monitor in the Utilities folder.  Select all processes in the menu display .  Click the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click the % CPU column heading twice to display in descending order.  If you find a process that uses a large amount of CPU %, then select the process, then click on the quit icon in the toolbar.  Click the force quit button to kill the process.  See if that helps.  Don't forget to mention the name of the runaway process, so you can find the cause of the problem.

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