Consumption when idling on desktop is not optimized which may contribute to the very short battery life. We’re sometimes able to measure a consumption level as high as 101 W even when on the Balanced power profile with no active applications running. Consumption on standby mode would also be very high at 25 W when it should be closer to just 1 or 2 watts.

The model does not support charging via USB-C unlike on most other modern gaming laptops and so you’re essentially tethered to the ginormous 330 W AC adapter when traveling.

Idle average was reported as 55wats, granted that’s with the crazy issues above - however minimum idle was reported at 30wats, not great…