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by user5994461 2178 days ago
Gmail and the IDE take ten seconds to load, while youtube is destroying any CPU to watch a 4k video (or 1080p on a battery saving laptop).

Youtube is possibly the single largest root cause for users upgrading laptops over the past 10 years. They made a silent transition to 60 FPS videos last year which cut hundreds of millions of users from watching HD.
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StillBored 2178 days ago
Destroying CPU in some configurations....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1wAfrMg5I is ~10% of 1 cpu on my desktop using chrome.

OTOH, I know what your talking about, my linux machine hates youtube, but that's because even with the chromium freeworld fork with some codec acceleration its still burning CPU like crazy.

So, a big part of this isn't a hardware problem so much as a software one combined with the constant fights over who's codec is the one true choice. AKA its a youtube and !windows/android+chrome problem.

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rumanator 2178 days ago
> Gmail and the IDE take ten seconds to load,

Those tasks are IO-bound, not CPU-bound.

Your concerns have no basis whatsoever.

> Youtube is possibly the single largest root cause for users upgrading laptops over the past 10 years.

No one in the whole world feels the need to upgrade to a high-end workstation because of YouTube videos.

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