Is my Mac dangerously hot?

Q My Mac mini M4 Pro now gets hot when rendering, with its temperature reported as 100-110°C, and apps telling me this could cause damage. Should I worry about this?

- by JACK FOLEY

No, you shouldn't, as your Mac takes good care of its own cooling. macOS contains the Core Duet subsystem to constantly monitor the internal environment of your Macs, including an array of temperature sensors in various parts of its hardware, some within its chip and SSD. When temperatures rise sufficiently, it's Core Duet that runs up the fans, and if necessary it will run kernel_task processes to 'busy idle' CPU cores, and may reduce the frequency the cores are running at.