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taigeair
on Oct 24, 2013
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The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones
but the video is so loud!
rythie
on Oct 24, 2013
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Yeah I know it's awful, if my Celeron 450Mhz could play DVDs at no effort, I don't know why this can't play videos on 5-10% CPU and not spin up the fan.
felixfurtak
on Oct 25, 2013
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Most video encoding is mp4-type now (rather than the mp2-type used by dvds). Mp4 is typically a lot more processor intensive.
ZoFreX
on Oct 25, 2013
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Any even vaguely modern laptop offloads mpeg 4 part 10 decoding onto a decoder chip or the GPU.
voltagex_
on Oct 24, 2013
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The older Mac laptops had (SMCUtil?) a utility to change the threshold for the fan - I know lots of Wintel systems have this in BIOS/EFI.
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