MacBook Pro Retina Core Temperature

Hi,
I've just bought the new high end Haswell 15" Macbook Pro Retina and have been installing all my stuff.
I noticed that it was feeling very hot so took a look at iStat which showed the CPU at 12% yet all the cores at 60-80 degrees.
Is this normal? Seems very hot to me considering I wasn't really straining the system.
Cheers,
Luke

It's on the Sensors menu of iStat...... since posting that I've seen the cpu tempreture get up to 90 but the fans don't seem to automatically speed up, I ended up manually putting them to maximum which cooled it right down very quickly

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It's on the Sensors menu of iStat...... since posting that I've seen the cpu tempreture get up to 90 but the fans don't seem to automatically speed up, I ended up manually putting them to maximum which cooled it right down very quickly

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madeel7077 wrote:
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