Core i7 MBP Hot Surface

Hey guys,
I just picked up a new MBP i7 today (love it) and have spent the last few hours getting all my data and applications onto it. This includes the game starcraft 2.
When I use processor intensive applications, which so far only includes running SC2, the cpu and gpu get hot, obviously. And the temps seem to be within normal range. Normally (like right now) the computer idles around 50ish C. And when running SC2 the cpu and gpu run around 75-80 C. Which all seems normal to me.
But, and this is where my question comes in, the surface of the unibody right above the first few f-keys gets REALLY hot to the touch. Uncomfortably hot. I understand that this is hard to quantify, and I understand the computer needs to dissipate the internal heat and all, but I'm just really surprised by how hot it is. Can anybody else with a similar macbook pro comment on this. Does this happen to anybody else? Is this just a place where the body dissipates a lot of heat?

eww wrote:
Since you know more about designing computers than Apple does..
I think you understand that your statement does not make sense, and will not help anybody.
Simply, above statement "Nothing's wrong here, the heat has to go somewhere." (implying it has to heat up the body of notebook) is plain wrong and misleading.
Heat has to go out in the surrounding air, through the cooling system and not heating up the notebook's body to temperatures uncomfortable to touch. If it does you either redesign cooling system or use different materials.
So, either the design is not correct, or it is knowingly compromised in favour of visual design.
Which is of course not bad or good, it just needs to be understood in the correct way. Especially, because Apple is lately not being very honest to the customers - like installing noisy HD's in iMac (which even Seagate acknowledges as flaw and issues firmware fixes, unfortunately not for Mac users) an in answer to complaints issuing essays about "normal hard-drive noises".
Also, other notebooks with same processor are running up to 20 degrees cooler under similar load and make less noise.
But, they are not nearly as stylish, so there are obviously choices to make.

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