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> and the rest will have to be consumed by the rest of the system somehow

The wattage figures on a charger are the maximum it can provide. The connected device only draws what it needs.

Of course. I just wanted to be clear that Framework laptops have 100W-rated power circuitry that works through any of the four ports, yet it would not be entirely correct to say that they “charge at 100W”: the batteries charge at 1C, that is capacity/1h; any power over that only counts towards powering the running system.

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