Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ...
by dzhiurgis on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:48PM
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YouTube videos don’t serve 4K on Safari. When they do, it’s over Chrome which is using 10W more powerr, which over entire world equals power use of a small country...
Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ...
by nixme on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:24PM
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h264ify [1] will save you power on Chrome. It does not support 4k however.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihd...
Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ...
by microcolonel on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:19PM
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Kaby Lake/Coffee Lake have full hardware VP9 decoding, so all told you'll probably be using more energy playing H.264 in Chrome if you're on a Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake processor.
"stalk your ex on Facebook, 37% faster"
"Cat videos on youtube look great in Retina full screen"
"Your stolen music files sound fab thanks to deeper bass response from the stereo speakers"
"chat with your dumb friends for hours, with a new longer-lasting battery"
"call in sick without removing your phone from its case, thanks to bluetooth."
Other than dying batteries, or physical damage (broken trackpad/keyboard) I seriously wonder why the average person needs anything but the most basic laptop when a $99 android phone is in all measures more powerful than a 10 year old laptop but we're doing basically the same activities: surf the web, chat, email. Very, very few people create content. Most consume.