It also means that your hardware has a tendency to "strangely become supper slow" when video codecs change over time. But then they don't change that often. Y

It also means that your hardware has a tendency to "strangely become supper slow" when video codecs change over time. But then they don't change that often. Your probably change your apple laptop more often. And given that codecs are pretty much the only "high performance" use-case apples target audience has to a high degree putting special hardware in to make it go fast is the right way to go.