> Oxide (metal-oxide TFT)

Ok, that makes some amount of sense. The article claims this is an OLED display, and I haven't heard of significant power games from low-refresh-rate OLED (since they have to signal the LED to stay on regardless of refresh rate).

However, do TFT's really use as much power as the rest of the laptop combined?

They're claiming 48% improvement, so the old TFT (without backlight) has to be equivalent to backlight + wifi + bluetooth + CPU + GPU + keyboard backlight + ...