All this over a $0.04 bump in licensing fees. They literally intend to break the user experience and frustrate global IT professionals (YEAH HI) to save $1m a year between the two of them.
Unbelievable, but also not surprising. All the more reason to hang onto older hardware or change vendors entirely. I’ve been bandying the phrase “Adversarial Partner” about a lot lately as it pertains to Microsoft, Apple, and Google, but I guess I have to add HP and Dell to that list too.
Not surprising, a <$450usd budget laptop usually has the lowest tdp CPUs, huge storage, and tons of slow ram, combining those specs with hevc support makes an excellent media server. Disabling hevc also disables compute instructions ensuring poor local inference/mining performance.
All this over a $0.04 bump in licensing fees. They literally intend to break the user experience and frustrate global IT professionals (YEAH HI) to save $1m a year between the two of them.
Unbelievable, but also not surprising. All the more reason to hang onto older hardware or change vendors entirely. I’ve been bandying the phrase “Adversarial Partner” about a lot lately as it pertains to Microsoft, Apple, and Google, but I guess I have to add HP and Dell to that list too.
Not surprising, a <$450usd budget laptop usually has the lowest tdp CPUs, huge storage, and tons of slow ram, combining those specs with hevc support makes an excellent media server. Disabling hevc also disables compute instructions ensuring poor local inference/mining performance.