Small feet between heat sink and bottom cover

[Dark_Horse007]

I see these small feets (encircled in red) on heat sink and bottom cover. Exactly what are those?

 

Couple months before Linus, in one of the video, recommended putting a thermal pad between heat sink and outer cover. Do you guys recommend? 

[minibois]

Probably insulating pads, so the bottom cover doesn't get very warm.

I can't recommend putting thermal pads there, to dissipate the heat into that.

 

 

The main two reasons I wouldn't recommend that are:

- the bottom plate is more of a heatspreader and not heatsink and would only help with small bursts of heat

- See the battery at he bottom? See how all the heat generating components and the entire cooling system is on the entire other side of the device? Batteries don't perform well in heat and by heating up the bottom plate of your laptop, you will also heat up that battery. 

[Dark_Horse007]

8 minutes ago, minibois said:

See the battery at he bottom

Thanks. This was exactly my concern.

[SupaKomputa]

No it's not a thermal pads, probably just a foam to minimize vibration