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This problem also shows up in Intel's latest Meteor Lake laptop processors, which are supposed to be able to power off the CPU chiplet and idle with the two low-power cores on the SoC chiplet. In practice, most OEMs ship too much crapware on their laptops for that capability to kick in, and it's really hard to get Windows cleaned up enough to get the battery life the chip ought to provide.


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