New Mac mini 2.5GHz i5 Temperature

Hi there, I got the new 2011 Mac mini 2.5GHz i5 model on Thursday and I have noticed that it seems to run reasonably hot. I have the iStat Pro widget installed (not sure if it accurate) and it reports a CPU temperature of around 55-60 C at idle (no user applications running) and I have seen it increase up to about 70 C when I was watching 1080p Flash YouTube video. I would just like to know if these temps are normal, so if any of you have this model could you please let me know your temps.
Also, I read that in 10.7 Lion, Adobe Flash does not use hardware acceleration so does mean this will increase the load on the CPU instead of using the GPU for acceleration?
Thanks

Thanks for posting your temps! I have just checked mine again and they are similar to yours. My ambient 1 & 2 are 47 C and the thermometer in my room says 23 C.
HD - 36
CPU - 54
Airport Card - 44
Ambient - 47
Ambient 2 - 47
GPU - 52
GPU Diode - 50
Mem Bank A1 - 51
Mem Module A1 - 50
Mem Module B4 - 50
Power Supply - 43

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