Any device with access to the iTunes Store, purchased within the last decade and a half should be able to play anything you purchase. Handbrake is for piracy though
New Qualcomm silicon for new Surface May 2024
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Because the world is full of devices without hardware h.265 decode.
Don't let the forum bubble fool you
Yet I should believe that Netflix wants to buy an iPad Pro to encode their shows to h264 xD
Of course not, that's a completely different matter.
Ok, got now, you're the king.
But Windows on Arm gives me these options, iPad "Pro" doesn't.
I can record with DVBViewer (http://dvbviewer.com/en/index.php?page=home) movies/tv shows on Cable TV and encode them to smaller size with Handbrake (and remove Commercial breaks with Avidemux (x64)) and watch them everywhere. And with iTunes I can watch them on my Apple TV4K.
Do I have these options on my Mac Mini M2? Possible, but I hate its windows management.
One of my friends insisted on watching videos on his TV; he would download them on his PC, re-encode them, then transfer to USB, then plug the USB stick into the TV and then try and play the file.
It was his way of doing it and he felt really smart doing it as well.
When I showed him he could install kodi on his TV and play every file he ever downloaded directly on his TV, wirelessly from his nas, he felt like a big idiot
It was his way of doing it and he felt really smart doing it as well.
When I showed him he could install kodi on his TV and play every file he ever downloaded directly on his TV, wirelessly from his nas, he felt like a big idiot
Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming
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Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming
In a result that should shock no one, gaming performance comes off worst in the world of x86 emulation.
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I'm more interested in the level of compatibility seen with games, given it's not some GPU powerhouse. The article was a pretty weak exploration of that. Hopefully DF or similar have a good crack at it.
Not only that, it's a totally new architecture for windows.
Intel had igpu for decades, switched to arc and we saw how smooth that went, especially for gaming.
I'm not saying it should be used as a good benchmark, just that it's probably the hardest part and all the marketing/focus has been all arm for obvious reasons.
Has anyone actually mentioned we now have another (i)gpu competitor
Microsoft Surface Laptop's Snapdragon X Elite tears through the MacBook Pro in performance
www.laptopmag.com
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Microsoft Surface Laptop's Snapdragon X Elite tears through the MacBook Pro in performance
Qualcomm is ready for a fight with its Snapdragon X Elite chip
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7X trounces the competition in performance benchmarks
Did the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x just become the Copilot+ PC to beat?
Microsoft Surface Laptop's Snapdragon X Elite tears through the MacBook Pro in performance
Microsoft Surface Laptop's Snapdragon X Elite tears through the MacBook Pro in performance
Qualcomm is ready for a fight with its Snapdragon X Elite chip
How does it "tear through" the MacBook Pro when it has similar or slower performance in the benchmarks of the article's choosing?
Reviews of the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7:
arstechnica.com
Surface Pro 11 and Laptop 7 review: An Apple Silicon moment for Windows
Superfluous AI features and compatibility issues don't detract from good PCs.
arstechnica.com
How can they conclude that when the review only includes Geekbench, 3DMark Wild Life, GFXBench, and Handbrake?
Adobe runs very bad despite already being ported for Aarch64. It should at least be competitive with the passively cooled MacBook Air with only 4 High Performance cores and 4 High Efficiency cores, especially considering the M1 only has access to 68GB/s memory bandwidth and the M2/M3 only 100GB/s memory bandwidth. The Qualcomm X Elite should have 136GB/s memory bandwidth.
