Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 get mainline Linux support for H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) hardware video coders thanks to work from Collabora.
Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro has been my notebook of choice in recent years, but it isn't perfect, and that led me to check out the competition — namely, Acer's $2,000 Predator Helios Neo 14 AI laptop.
AMD's FSR 4 is a very capable upscaling algorithm, but it doesn't beat Nvidia's DLSS 4.5. FSR 4.1, however, might make it more of a toss-up between the two, especially at lower-quality settings, ...