You’ve answered your own question. It’s a PC laptop with a full fat processor and GPU. Certain x86 chips which have super low power states still don’t make use of it because of the billion softwares there may be installed which keep the processor from entering that state. Then there’s the motherboard issue. Not all of them support such states. Here’s a video from Wolfgang, it’s for PCs but the same applies for laptops.
Length 10/10 Girth 9/10 Smoothnes 6/10
I like a smooth stick. This is a good stick. I wish it didn’t have jagged edges. But it sure is a trekking buddy. 8/10