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Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life

Posted by timothy on from the less-frantic-scrambling dept.

The lack of Flash in the new MacBook Air may annoy some users, but it has a big upside, too. According to Wired's report (citing Ars Technica) passed on by an anonymous reader, "Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably — as much as 33 percent in our testing. With a handful of websites loaded in Safari, Flash-based ads kept the CPU running far more than seemed necessary, and the best time I recorded with Flash installed was just 4 hours. After deleting Flash, however, the MacBook Air ran for 6:02 — with the exact same set of websites reloaded in Safari, and with static ads replacing the CPU-sucking Flash versions."

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  1. I know I'm going to get "Flamebait" .... by Quixotic+Raindrop · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But this is a no-brainer. Seriously, the only people who think having Flash installed *at all* is a good idea are people who have no brains, namely Adobe and a handful of lazy web developers. Flash is just, exactly, precisely, no-doubt-about-it as retarded as Steve Jobs said ... only I've been saying it since a long time ago, he's just got a bigger platform than I do to evangelize against that steaming pile of crap that is Flash.

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  2. Re:Why not install Flashblock by default by Altus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because its not an option in firefox or safari by default. Its handled by plugins.

    I really don't see what Android has to do with any of this.

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  3. Re:Dreamer? by Rockoon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you call that a development environment.

    You are what is called an ignorant fanboy. Someone that doesnt even know the most basic of things about the opposition but makes a series of declarations, each one following evidence that the previous one was demonstrably incorrect in the most trivial of ways.

    You should stop now, because everything you are saying is demonstrably false.

    Its OK to not like Microsoft, or Windows. Its not OK to repeatedly make shit up in some stupid fucking effort to defend your embarrassing amount of ignorance.

    Why not stick to the REAL reasons you don't like Microsoft? Do you really have to make shit up? Really? You dont have any factual reasons? Wow.

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