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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours ago

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
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    increasing from $0.20 each to $0.24 each in the United States. To put that into perspective, in Q3 2025, HP sold 15,002,000 laptops and desktops

    “This is pretty ridiculous, given these systems are $800+ a machine

    I wonder how long the list of these fees for one machine is

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      That’s about a $600,000 savings for that quarter, for a company that reported $13.9 billion in revenue for Q3 2025.

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        It would be cruel of us to ask them to only have $13,899,400,000 in revenue that quarter instead of $13,900,000,000

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          Revenue wouldn’t change from this, only expenses and profit.

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            Yeah, I was just riffing from the other post but you’re right, that’s not how that works.

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              Fair enough

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        Someone was a doing a lot of hard work subtracting big scary numbers in their budget sheet.

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