> Curious what the power draw is with an older Thinkpad like this while idling and under load. I have an X230i running Debian, and I got it to idle - screen on

> Curious what the power draw is with an older Thinkpad like this while idling and under load. I have an X230i running Debian, and I got it to idle - screen on, backlight low, no browser open, Emacs and Syncthing running - at around 8 W. It gets up to ~10 W with light usage - i.e., a few browser tabs open - ~13 W at 40% load, and ~17 W at 75% (I tested the last two with x265 video playback, which doesn't get hardware acceleration on Ivy Bridge). The i3-3120m in it should have a TDP of 35 W, but I don't think I ever saw it draw that much.