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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."
...but my computer ran out of batteries and I had to find an outlet.
...viewing TFA caused a Flash popover ad to appear over the article text. Just sayin'.
"I've be trying to stop Flash for years!" - The Shade
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There are many beneficiaries when flash eventually bites the dust and becomes a pariah like Java Applets. But I'd like to point out the biggest impact isn't the battery life, it's your crotch. Flash forces laptops to run extremely hot and it invariably burns your nads while you rewind Lady Gaga videos for the 20th time in a row.
The reason why male sack is situated in-between legs is because it needs to remain a certain temperature to function properly. Evolution never anticipated humans putting hot slabs of electronics on their privates for extended periods of time.
No it doesn't.
This little benchmark even proves it.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Tinfoil hats don't work, you know. You need a copper faraday cage hat.
Geez, I wonder how Jobs' little darling, HTML5, will manage to do animations without using any CPU power?
My guess is, by using GPU acceleration.
Which, as we all know, uses no battery power.
Evolution never anticipated anything, full stop.
Oh, yeah? How do you explain evolution anticipating wrist watches by providing us with wrists, pal? Or anticipating the infernal earphones from Apple by provided us with convenient bumps and crags on the ear lobe for it to hang on to?
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