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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. Re:No ABP in OSX? by Bassman59 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why would ANYONE use Safari on Mac when you have FF? ABP and NoScript for the win!

    Ummm, AdBlock is now available for Safari, and Click2Flash neatly dispenses with Flash.

    But, the battery-sucking aspect of Flash is old news.

  2. Re:Not just the Air by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quicktime/iTunes isn't bad when ran on OS X because its pretty much native. Its bloated on Windows because it seems to think that rather than using the things that are already there, you need to install half of OS X to run a program.

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  3. Re:I think this should be read more like... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, because decoding H.264 is so much less CPU intensive...

    You're trying to be facetious, but in my experience that's actually true - and that shows what a dog Flash is.

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