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At idle it certainly shouldn't be, in order to support the cpu/gpu anyway, only when heavily loaded.

Yeah, that makes sense. I will have to keep an eye on it I think because I wouldn't expect to see any Battery Current being used at idle when plugged in. Will check with a fresh user account to see if it is the same.
 
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