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Adobe's Flash Player has long been the scandalous CPU sow upon Macs. Every time we listen to my wife's MacBook's fans starting off similar to the storm upon the alternative side of the vital room, we know it's because she's playing Bejeweled Blitz or the little alternative funny Flash-based diversion that's pegging her poor machine's CPU to infinity as well as beyond.Things are the bit rosier with Adobe's pre-release of Flash Player 10.1. The Windows chronicle has poignant improvements, namely await for hardware-accelerated video decoding of h.264 video, though the Mac as well as Linux versions do not include await for this feature. As usual, Adobe blames Apple for "not being open enough" -- "Mac OS X does not display access to the required APIs" according to Adobe -- though even without hardware-accelerated video decoding, this pre-release build of Flash boasts poignant CPU bucket improvements over its predecessor.
Anandtech tested the opening improvement of the pre-release chronicle of Flash Player with the following results:
I took the same Office shave I'd been using for all of the alternative tests as well as ran it upon my Mac Pro during full screen (2560 x 1600). Using Activity Monitor we looked during the CPU function of the Flash Player plug-in. we compared both versions of Flash as well as saw the poignant dump in CPU utilization:
Flash 10.0.32.18: 450%
Flash 10.1.51.45: 190%
Going from rounded off 450% down to 190% (or the bit over 10% of sum CPU function across 16 threads) done full-screen Hulu playable upon my machine. In the past we always had to run it in the smaller window, though interjection to Flash 10.1 we do not have to any longer.
Continue reading Adobe pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 right away available
TUAWAdobe pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 right away accessible creatively appeared upon The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) upon Tue, 17 November 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see the conditions for use of feeds.
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