One thing I've noticed about the 16" is that it is capable of sustaining a much higher power draw than other MBPs. In one sense, that's very good - that's why it's an excellent performer (I ran a 4 hour job which pegged the CPU at 100% the whole time, and it stayed around 3.15-3.2 GHz, with the CPU around 75-80 degrees C). A 15" of any description might have run that high a speed for a little while, but it couldn't keep it up for hours due to heat.
The downside to this is that, as noted in other threads, the 16" wants really robust power adapters. It ran >80 watts that whole time. I don't have an 87 watt adapter around to check how it will perform, but it drains the battery if I do anything vaguely demanding with it on my 60 watt OWC dock. Its own 96 watt adapter is, of course, fine, as is a 100 watt Zendure SuperPort.
The 16" has a very low idle power draw (only about 5-8 watts, which is remarkable for a machine this powerful), but we tend to plug computers into docks when we're using them hard, not when they're idling.
As is being discussed in another thread, there are no 100 watt docks out right now, and most docks are 60w, with a smaller number in the 85/87W range. Most dock manufacturers took a shortcut because the 15" MBP doesn't sustain power draw much over 60W - they let it draw down the battery when it spikes higher (the 13" won't draw more than 60W from an adapter, no matter what it is). The 16", with its high sustained draw, doesn't much like that shortcut!
The downside to this is that, as noted in other threads, the 16" wants really robust power adapters. It ran >80 watts that whole time. I don't have an 87 watt adapter around to check how it will perform, but it drains the battery if I do anything vaguely demanding with it on my 60 watt OWC dock. Its own 96 watt adapter is, of course, fine, as is a 100 watt Zendure SuperPort.
The 16" has a very low idle power draw (only about 5-8 watts, which is remarkable for a machine this powerful), but we tend to plug computers into docks when we're using them hard, not when they're idling.
As is being discussed in another thread, there are no 100 watt docks out right now, and most docks are 60w, with a smaller number in the 85/87W range. Most dock manufacturers took a shortcut because the 15" MBP doesn't sustain power draw much over 60W - they let it draw down the battery when it spikes higher (the 13" won't draw more than 60W from an adapter, no matter what it is). The 16", with its high sustained draw, doesn't much like that shortcut!
