Does the 2012 MacBook Air overheat or get hot to touch?

I currently own the original MacBook air, and running a basic word document for like 20mins causes my MacBook to get really hot and the fan is quite loud. But I love the MBA so I was wanting to know has this problem been solved with the new MBA? Or does it still overheat. And how much can you do before it get really hot? Like can you run programs like CAD without it heating up?

Install iStat pro (download from the Internet) and it will display your MBA internal temperatures and fan speed. Then open Activity Monitor set to show 'All Processes' and '%CPU' to display values from High to low. Look for applications using a large CPU percentage. You may be experiencing a 'runaway application'.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1473
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