Normal office workers giving presentations while sharing video in a conference room over HDMI while simultaneously streaming the meeting over Zoom will absolutely push the thermal limits within five minutes.
Hell, add in multiple intensive browser tabs, a few large Excel sheets, and VSCode open to a large Rust project with rust-analyzer running and still, the processor will hardly even get hot. I’ve done all of this on an M2 with zero problem whatsoever.
To be fair, I felt compelled to spend hundreds of dollars extra on 24GB and 1TB to address the swapping and IO constraints that exist at the 8G/256GB price point.