Video playback is no longer a benchmark with Hardware video decoding units that let CPU practically shut down 80% of die space. People actually expect to USE the laptop like a computer, not like a movie watching on a toiled tablet. As the last test shows using CPU shows new laptops to be worse than the 2015 models.
Btw Did this macworld.com writer run out of bytes on the page? was that the reason he had to split this article in two? or was it just for additional ad impressions?