Tagged: 4k

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ThinkPad X1 Yoga: 4K video playback performance

I examined 4K video playback on the Yoga 3 Pro and the YOGA 900 before. I found that when using Internet Explorer or Edge, the computer properly uses hardware decoding and the CPU is not stressed that much or much at all. And then in Google Chrome, it somehow uses...

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Yoga 3 Pro: HD&4K video problem persists

In my Yoga 3 Pro review I talked about a problem of watching HD and 4K videos on the Yoga 3 Pro with Chrome. Chrome wants to use the VP9/WebM codec by default, which is not hardware accelerated on the Yoga 3 Pro. Result: if you watch videos on the...