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Yea exactly, you load a page your cpu will boost for 1% of the time you spend on that page while loading it and then idle at a few Mhz for your os. I dont get the "it doesnt idle". With a slim linux system it propably idles a lot more than with win11.
So clearly it will be using much more power when it's loading the site. These days as you scroll down the page it will infinitely load more stuff. Can't call that idle
Dude go measure your cpu usage while scrolling a site i can watch a high res video with cpu usage under 10% measuring the difference between no active program and only the os is nearly impossible. Why dont you go and log your cpu power for doing this vs only your os running and report back? If your cpu usage keeps being above say 25% while loading a normal site without funky stuff going on, something is weird. Also keep in mind that even if one of your cores is boosting for a second you cpu usage as a whole over time is still low and low power draw at low clocks will benefit you.
The CPU usage is 10%, but the energy usage is NOT 6.5 watts (with 65 watts being 100% usage)
That's not how CPU usage works
First energy usage is not watts, second you can look via tools like hwinfo or others how much power your cpu draws. Where did i say it would draw 6.5w at 10%?
Just checked the laptop first:
It's 9.8w on idle (including laptop screen and RAM and everything) and 16.8w scrolling a website
That's 50% more power usage. Over 20 seconds up from 196 J to 316 J