Macbook 13" Pro Power consumption

I've emailed Apple about this, thought I should repeat here:
There is a nice page with the technical power and thermal data of the Mac Mini at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3468 , but I wasn't able to find something like this for the 13" and 15" pros, any chance we'll see them?
PS A web review said idle 13" was 14W, and they never went over 29W, but I doubt the MacBook overperforms Atom netbooks in power consumption. Running prime95 and a nice graphical app should do the trick

I don't think they are available for the mid-June models yet. Here are the environmental reports for the 15" Late 2008 MacBook Pro and the 13" Late 2008 MacBook.
The power consumption of the current 15" MBP should be similar to the previous 15" MBP, and the power consumption of the current 13" MBP should be similar to the previous 13" MB.

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