Flash Player 10 Beta for Mac on MBAs? [Archive]

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dudup

Jul 7, 2008, 01:41 AM

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/07/03/latest-beta-of-flash-10-for-mac-should-boost-performance

Did anyone give a try on this?

ayeying

Jul 7, 2008, 10:14 AM

I'm using it. I don't see too much of an improvement but frame rates are up.

Mactagonist

Jul 7, 2008, 12:40 PM

I'm using it. I don't see too much of an improvement but frame rates are up.

Let us know how it is after a few days of use. Hopefully this will be a solution to the heavy fan use when viewing flash webpages.

WPB2

Jul 7, 2008, 12:42 PM

Thanks for the info, I will install in a minute, hope the fan shuts the hell up.

TheBearman

Jul 7, 2008, 09:30 PM

I don't see any change to the CPU load with the 10 beta. Fans, heat all about the same from what I can see. It is still beta, maybe, maybe the GA code will be different.

dudup

Jul 7, 2008, 09:49 PM

I've noticed a 15 to 20% reduction on CPU while playing YouTube videos, and no problems at all.

I'm really hoping they improve more on performance on this version. I know the core shutdown is the actual problem, but 99% of the times I run onto it is while there's some SWF playing -- in fact, to me, the flash player is the main achilles heel of the MBA.