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I recently pulled out an old 2008 unibody Macbook pro just to play around on. It was a nearly %100 CPU utilization just attempting to play a 4K youtube video. T

I recently pulled out an old 2008 unibody Macbook pro just to play around on. It was a nearly %100 CPU utilization just attempting to play a 4K youtube video. That's something my $400 phone doesn't even break a sweat on. It's amazing how well cell phones have been optimized in the last decade.

Sharlin 6y ago
That one's probably thanks to hardware h.264/265 decoding. That poor 2008 MBP likely has to do all the heavy lifting in software…