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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The headline is a little misleading.

As I understand it, they haven't retroactively removed the HEVC capability from any devices that already shipped with it enabled.

Rather, they have stopped including it in new ones of the same model or in certain new models, even though those machines still have CPUs which have the capability built in for it.

This has resulted in e.g. businesses buying a laptop which works fine for conference calls and other stuff, then buying another laptop the "exact same" and suddenly it's nerfed.