Is it "normal" for the bottom of my MacBook Pro to heat up?

I'm pretty sure that I have a defective MacBook Pro, which I purchased from MacMall on August 29.  I've mostly only been running Safari since receiving the computer on September 2.  Even after a full charge, the battery must be recharged within 24 hours, during which time it runs almost completely out.  The Apple store ran diagnostics on the MacBook yesterday; according to Apple, everything checks out accordingly with the computer.

my macbook pro tends to heat up after a lot of usage (much more than you described). regardless, the heat is common for me and does not do any harm thus far. what is helpful, however, is to frequently check (maybe once or twice a week) your activity monitor. you can find this by going to finder>applications> utilities >activity monitor. if you go to the "system memory" tab on the bottom, it will show you a pi graph. if it looks as though there is little free space, i recomend restarting your computer. this should relieve most of the heat and quiet the fan significantly. however, if you are mostly just on safari yet there is still little free space, something is not right and i would have apple re-examine.
just to give you a sense of what is normal, i restart my computer once every two weeks if that - and that is with photoshop, xcode, and many other large applications.
hope this helps

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