Some apps tend to max out the cpu. The amount of times I'm just doing email and my laptop cpu spins up with all 8 cores maxed out due to a runaway process like

Some apps tend to max out the cpu. The amount of times I'm just doing email and my laptop cpu spins up with all 8 cores maxed out due to a runaway process like mcafee virus scan or something similar is not fun. So I'd assume they could pull a few hundred Watts here too if allowed. Ended up switching to a mac, and now it's office 365 that regularly maxes out my cpu (and Window_server along with it).