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Comment by ChuckNorris89 | Hacker News Reader

>I hate my work laptop that spins up and gets loud during zooms/teams meetings.

How much of that is the problem of the SW?

Don’t let hardware makers off the hook for bad cooling system design. Or Intel off the hook for pumping more and more power into their processors to compete with AMD.

If you look at Teams when it’s running, it’s not like it’s maxing out a CPU core or anything. It’s just that many laptops are pitifully bad.

Huh. Most corporate windows machines are loaded with crap. The very same hardware behaves much much better with any modern Linux.

That, and apple has a 3 year lead on chip manufacturing side. I moved from M1 MacBook Pro a same size Lenovo with Ryzen 6800h and I cannot tell the difference speed wise. Noise wise, too. It's not even a Zen 4 CPU

Does it matter if you have no choice but to use said software?

Not your fault obviously, but I meant it matters in the sense that part of the problem also lies with the companies and industry as a whole shipping highly inefficient SW and having the solution be "just buy a new MacBook with Mx chip to run a videochat app bro!!11"

Honestly shitty SW should get slapped with an environmental TAX just like motor vehicles. I remember running Skype video calls and Pidgin chats in ~2005 on a 1.2 GHz single core CPU with 512MB of RAM.

I doubt those were group video, which is a much more data intensive problem. The quality is also much better these days.

I have little to no choice in my software options at work.

I can exert some influence in my choice of hardware.

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