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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by GhettoComputers on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @04:44PM (#29100027)
>even something like h.264 decoding puts a huge strain on my haswell laptop.

I never had that problem even before haswell. They have hardware decoding built in, thats probably caused by another issue. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration

I agree about not enforcing viewpoints on others. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by least on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:29AM (#29103684)
Apologies, I think I may be thinking of h.265 and vp9. At any rate, the point is that particular laptop cannot play back any youtube video beyond 720p30 without protesting. very loudly.
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