Laptops with sixth-generation Intel Core and later processors have built-in hardware support for HEVC decoding and encoding. AMD has made laptop chips supporting the codec since 2015. However, both Dell and HP have disabled this feature on some of their popular business notebooks.

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At $934, you’re getting flagship specifications at $615 below the standard retail price that Dell rarely discounts this aggressively. The 40% savings bring a Core Ultra 9 processor, 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage into the price range typically occupied by mid-spec laptops with half the memory and storage.

I tested the computer maker's rebranded XPS laptop. It's still a good fit for creators as long as you aren't turned off by its peculiar design, hefty weight and high price.

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports.

The battery is designed to last an entire workday, and when you’re running low, you can juice it back up to 50% in just 30 minutes. Ports include a power jack, HDMI 1.4 (supports up to 1920×1080 @60Hz), USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C (full function), USB 2.0, SD card reader, and a headset jack.

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In Texas they do everything big, even obsolescence. Take the abandoned Dell desktop computer factory just a few miles from its Round Rock headquarters. It's bigger than the Alamo. Back when Dell had 18% of the worldwide personal computer business in 2004 ...