Older laptops idle at about 12-17 watts according to powertop (so not including losses in the warm to touch power brick), would be surprising if sff from same e

Older laptops idle at about 12-17 watts according to powertop (so not including losses in the warm to touch power brick), would be surprising if sff from same era were much more efficient. edit: searching around, people are reporting 10 ish watts on x220 era thinkpads. But still 3-5 watts sounds low for a desktop. Also, Pi 4 idle power consumption at launch was significantly higher than with current firmware, those early Pi 4 figures were the only ones nearing 3 watts I think. And of course the less beefy Pi Zeros are sub 1W.