Yeah, it's not great. My RPi with an SSD and 6 USB HDDs is only drawing 45W, and about 30W of that is the HDDs.
I'll check what my M700 draws later.
Big-Finding2976
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Windows always seems to be running something in the background, either Defender updates or telemetry, so Linux should be much better once the updates have finished.
Yeah, running it without the battery (if that works, I don't think it does with all laptops) is safer but that loses the advantage of having the battery backup, and if you can't leave it running 24/7 that rather limits what you can use it for.
I've got a smart plug that measures the power used, so I'll see what that shows.
I just reinstalled Linux Mint on the whole drive and even with that it uses 60-80% of the CPU when updating. Synaptic used about 40%, right now two instances of rsync are using about 40% between them, dpkg sometimes uses 30-43%, so I'm not surprised that Windows with all its background processes and telemetry would use more.
I hadn't thought of putting the guts into another case. I don't think I'll do that with this laptop, as it's running OK and it has a functional monitor and kbm (mostly, the v key is a bit unreliable), but if I definitely wanted to use it as a headless machine to run 24/7 off the mains (with a UPS backup instead of the battery) that would be an option.