alt Hacker News> a cheap Lenovo laptop with a Celeron dual core
Yeah, those things are born e-waste. I'm surprised Intel even bothers. Even on Linux they would varely play an HD Youtube video if it weren't for the hardware acceleration. A dual core from several years ago, assuming it's a proper i5 or i7, will do a lot better.
Windows 11 doesn't make things any better.
> Even on Linux they would varely play an HD Youtube video if it weren't for the hardware acceleration.
Video decoding has always been a brutal workload, but that isn't Microsoft's fault. I had to replace my Thinkpad X220 with an X270 for no reason at all except h.265. It's a ULV i5 too, so the perf is almost identical to the old laptop's... until you watch video on it.