| ▲ | ZiiS 7 days ago | |
I am not the original commenter; but they said "low-power user cases" i.e. very much not when running Geekbench; rather when it is near idle. | ||
| ▲ | mycall a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
For my use case, I plug in a external SSD drive, setup an MP3 playlist, close the lid then put the computer into my backpack for low wattage listening. The M3 MBA uses about 50% more power than the P4 under this use case (usbc watt meter shows this). | ||
| ▲ | aurareturn 7 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
FYI, AMD chips are notoriously bad at idle. | ||