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by magicalhippo 1994 days ago
Well I literally powered up an oldish laptop two days ago that had been sitting there for a few years, and it turned off three times within a few seconds of booting until I let it sit for a few minutes for the battery to charge.

The power brick is rated at 19V 3.16A output, so 60W, the CPU is a 35W TDP second-gen i3.

Of course a big part of that is spinning up the disk, so as you say I imagine this is quite different these days with SSDs.