Flash Kills the MacBook Air Battery 33% Faster

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It's not Adobe's fault that sites are full of flash nowadays. It's like saying 'If you don't browse at all, your MacBook will have full 8 hours of idle usage"! 😀
 
[citation][nom]SneakySnake[/nom]Reason they use core2duo in the low end laptops is so they can couple it with a decent gnu, cuz intel is of the gay and won't let any other integrated ships elides their own into i3/5 etc.[/citation]
The only reason that they're using the c2d was because intel and nvidia couldn't reach an agreement and that prevented nvidia from making chipsets for the i series cpus. But apple can still use the i series cpu paired with an nvidia gpu.
 
Playing an avo file on your mac reduces the battery life
Playing music on your mac reduces the battery life
using bluetooth on your mac reduces batterty life
Playing a flash video reduces your battery life
Playing a video while etc etc under htnl 5 will reduce your battery life

Not doing the above increases your battery life.

I'm in shock!
 
I can't wait to see someone actually proving HTML5 can be more power-efficient than flash. In the end I doubt there's any major gains appart from not having to pay huge fees for Adobe's development tools
 
[citation][nom]vectorm12[/nom]I can't wait to see someone actually proving HTML5 can be more power-efficient than flash. In the end I doubt there's any major gains appart from not having to pay huge fees for Adobe's development tools[/citation]
The problem is that benchmarks put flash ahead of html5 in terms of performance and power consumption. HTML5 still has a very long road ahead of them.
 
[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]just hate websites with lots of video advertisements especially if they don't allow you option to skip them[/citation]
I think this is the solution: run Firefox w/Adblock Plus on the MacBook Air instead of Safari. There'd be no Flash ads, improving battery life, but flash content you want to access, like games, news feeds, videos, etc., still run. I think that would strike a good balance.
 
Adobe Flash Player keeps updating and updating. It gives me a sense that it is not a piece of stable and secure software. Some new technologies must replace it for good. I hope HTML 5 is the answer.
 
[citation][nom]iamtheking123[/nom]Apple Fanboy Self-Test:Which is better:a) Flash orb) HTML5If b) you are an Apple fanboy.[/citation]
10 years ago PCs with 64MB RAM and Windows 98 would browse the web as fast as the current ones with Win7 and 2GB RAM Flash was avaiable and (ab)used nearly to the same extent as it is nowadays.

Blame Apple?
 
[citation][nom]K2N hater[/nom]10 years ago PCs with 64MB RAM and Windows 98 would browse the web as fast as the current ones with Win7 and 2GB RAM Flash was avaiable and (ab)used nearly to the same extent as it is nowadays.Blame Apple?[/citation]

It does not directly correlate with flash. These servers now have to travel across the entire planet and back then photos were 256 colors if they had any at all. Plus now browsers have to load Java, HTML5, CSS, PHP, etc. and there is plenty of non-flash ads and server queries. Finally increased server load and people browsing make it slower too.

But yeah that is not Apples fault. It is their fault for launching war against Flash and dictating what their fans should or should not use though.
 
[citation][nom]DjEaZy[/nom]... flash is legacy.. time to move on...[/citation]

are you a total moron? , saying flash is legacy is a kin to sayign windows , and os x are legacy , photoshop, maya, and 3ds max are legacy.

it's software it gets updated upgraded rewritten , modern flash is not the same thing as flash from ten or 12 years ago... just like windows is not the same os from ten years ago nore is osx
 
[citation][nom]HappyBB[/nom]Adobe Flash Player keeps updating and updating. It gives me a sense that it is not a piece of stable and secure software. Some new technologies must replace it for good. I hope HTML 5 is the answer.[/citation]

seemy above post , now apply same question to yourself , are you atotal moron?

all software gets updated , upgraded or out right re written and yes patched als well , including every thign form windows to apple's os and all otehr software that any computer makes use of , so when you decide to pull your foot out of your mouth , come back and post somethign intelligent for a change :)
 
[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]Adobe's Flash implementation on OSX has always been rather poor, running significantly slower (and with much higher CPU utilization) than on Windows. I don't blame Apple for wanting to dump flash in favor of a more open standard. Open standards like HTML5 allow Apple (or Firefox or whoever) to optimize the source code and write a lean and fast implementation. With a proprietary product like Adobe Flash, nobody has any access to the source code except Adobe.[/citation]

This goes both ways though. If OSX was easier to develop for, then perhaps the implementation of Flash would be better. I'm not really a fan of Adobe, but I think Apple is the one that shot themselves in the foot.
 
Most of the internet uses flash.

On the mac OS, the latest version of flash uses nearly twice the CPU usage as it does if you were to run windows on the same system. On many laptops today, if you were to install windows xp or ubuntu, you get more battery life as compared to windows 7 or vista or the mac os

GPU acceleration extends battery life as when accelerating flash, the CPU usage is reduced but the GPU usage hovers around 0 and 1% and uses only a tiny bit extra power as compared to just the CPU alone (The GPU is significantly more efficient when it comes to performance per watt)

If you have a windows based laptop, try this, install everest ultimate
using it's power monitor, try this, run prime 95 and watch how much additional power the system uses, now using a GPU or physx based stress test that has very little CPU usage, check the power usage again, you will see that the CPU will use significantly more power.
 
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