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Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life
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."
... web ads can rob 2 hours from a macbook air's life, the main reason why the battery lasts longer in the no-flash case is because the ads aren't loaded, once all ads move to HTML5 I don't think there'll be that much of a difference.
Yes, because the display of the ads themselves are toe blame and not the runtime of flash. Oh... wait. No doubt that HTML 5 ads would consume some more resources but they would still be an order of magnitude less power hungry.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
And in other news, disabling DRM ends up saving 74% and disabling video ends up saving 52% of battery life, Wired author writes. My next step is to disable the entire bloody Mac OS, and see how much energy I can save just running everything from the shell. Wish me luck.
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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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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Yes, because decoding H.264 is so much less CPU intensive...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
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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