This is astonishingly bad power usage for a laptop, a complete dealbreaker: "...early tests show that the SoC already draws about 16 watts at idle..."

For some context, my 12-core Intel laptop consumes 1.5 to 2 watts at idle for the SoC. Apple M silicon might consume even less.

yeah, that is impressively bad. Perhaps a reporting error and it is 16W at full tilt?

> upgrade kit

> makes your laptop slower

Hmm...