true but mostly irrelevant as there rarely is any load to speak of. if you need a heavy duty machine, use it, but most of the time you don't, that's the point.

true but mostly irrelevant as there rarely is any load to speak of. if you need a heavy duty machine, use it, but most of the time you don't, that's the point. (for comparison; skylake laptop uses about 20W under max load, my 12-gen desktop uses 40W while idle)