Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Adobe Releases Beta of 64-Bit Flash Player for Mac OS X
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
It's funny. 64 bit flash was introduced mainly because IE 9 Beta was introduced yesterday. (Riding the attention IE 9 has been getting.) On computer sites they're talking about performance, benefits, etc. Practical stuff. But in the Apple universe it's all about Apple. The sole reason for 64 bit flash is because of Apple, and Adobe kicking and screaming not to die. 2 different realities, somewhat unaware of each other.
Can someone with a reasonably high ish end mac please do a test for me.
You need to have a 1920x1080 screen for this.
Can you go to this page and run the Baby Baboon animation and click the top left option to make it run full screen on your wide-screen monitor and report as to how the CPU usage is when running it?
Due to the different scenes, it tends to fluctuate quite a bit.
On my machine the lowest spike is about 10% to 14% at one point, and up to 45% to 50% for a second at another point.
Normally floating in the mid 20's / mid 30's range most of the time.
I'd be interested to see how this now runs on a nice modern mac.
Thanks
The link: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Baby+Baboon/
You need to have a 1920x1080 screen for this.
Can you go to this page and run the Baby Baboon animation and click the top left option to make it run full screen on your wide-screen monitor and report as to how the CPU usage is when running it?
Due to the different scenes, it tends to fluctuate quite a bit.
On my machine the lowest spike is about 10% to 14% at one point, and up to 45% to 50% for a second at another point.
Normally floating in the mid 20's / mid 30's range most of the time.
I'd be interested to see how this now runs on a nice modern mac.
Thanks
The link: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Baby+Baboon/
You're forgetting the simple fact that HTML 5 is not even an official standard yet.
It's a draft standard subject to further changes.
Are you suggesting that Adobe Flash is an official standard? Or even a draft standard? Or that it is not subject to change?
I'm pretty sure Windows 2000 support does not slow Firefox down at all, especially on Mac. It slows testing for regressions down, but platform specific code is not compiled for other platforms. It's called conditional code.
A question for everyone: Is the an ad-blocker for Safari that compares well to ABP on Firefox? That's the main reason (along with Firebug) that Firefox is still my main browser. I don't necessarily like that I'm blocking ads (from a philosophical perspective) but Jeesh, the internet is a tacky and garish place when ads are enabled. I'd rather pay for content.
Nope...those Farmville Mums now use iPhones and iPads since Zynga has relased iOS versions. Hey, they get a push notification, when they can harvest.
At least that was, what the last WWDC keynote was about
Can someone with a reasonably high ish end mac please do a test for me.
You need to have a 1920x1080 screen for this.
Can you go to this page and run the Baby Baboon animation and click the top left option to make it run full screen on your wide-screen monitor and report as to how the CPU usage is when running it?
Due to the different scenes, it tends to fluctuate quite a bit.
On my machine the lowest spike is about 10% to 14% at one point, and up to 45% to 50% for a second at another point.
Normally floating in the mid 20's / mid 30's range most of the time.
I'd be interested to see how this now runs on a nice modern mac.
Thanks
The link: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Baby+Baboon/
I tried it on that resolution, since my laptop is connected to a high resolution monitor, but I did it on Windows. Depending on what part of the animation was playing, it played anywhere from 17%, to 40%. But for the most part it was playing with 20 - 25% CPU usage.
Thanks. So you are getting pretty much the same numbers as me.
Hope to get some people with 24" iMacs put up their numbers.
Also (if any 27" iMac users are listening) I'd love to know the CPU usage you get from full screen given that you have even more pixels to push around.
Hope some others have a spare couple of minutes to try this little test
Wow, you're basing your opinion on the fact that it supports Windows 2000? I wonder what your opinions about everything else in life. Forget any speed tests, I'm going to base my opinion on what older OS is supports.
So far firefox beta 4 for Windows (Not sure if there's a mac version) is the best browser I've ever used. And I was down on firefox, actually switched to Chrome the day before I decided to try the beta. The only reason why I downloaded the Beta was because I wasn't going to use FireFox as my main browser anymore. I base my opinion on actually trying it.
Can someone with a reasonably high ish end mac please do a test for me.
You need to have a 1920x1080 screen for this.
Can you go to this page and run the Baby Baboon animation and click the top left option to make it run full screen on your wide-screen monitor and report as to how the CPU usage is when running it?
Due to the different scenes, it tends to fluctuate quite a bit.
On my machine the lowest spike is about 10% to 14% at one point, and up to 45% to 50% for a second at another point.
Normally floating in the mid 20's / mid 30's range most of the time.
I'd be interested to see how this now runs on a nice modern mac.
Thanks
The link: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Baby+Baboon/
My Core i7 @ 2560x1440 fullscreen hit 197% than quickly dropped to 41% and went between 35% and 45%.
Yup, pretty much the same. What are the specs of your machine?Thanks. So you are getting pretty much the same numbers as me.
Hope to get some people with 24" iMacs put up their numbers.
Also (if any 27" iMac users are listening) I'd love to know the CPU usage you get from full screen given that you have even more pixels to push around.
Hope some others have a spare couple of minutes to try this little test
I should mention that I was using dual screen, to play the animation on my 24 inch monitor, and the screen on the laptop to check out the CPU usage. I don't think that made much of a difference though.
Yeah. The web would be better without HTML.
No, I'm not. HTML5 (no space) is, as you say, not a complete standard. It is certainly the next standard, though. XHTML 2 is dead in the water—its corpse abandoned and left for the fishes. Elements of HTML5 as so thoroughly established at this point that they can be readily used (and are being used). Others that are only appropriate for certain demographics are also so completely established that they can be used as well. It is the nature of standards such as this that years and years and years will pass before it is 100% complete and final, but it is in use now, and those fundamental tools which are already being used aren't going to be broken in such a way that what works now will be rendered broken.
I used to use GlimmerBlocker but it messes up click-through links from cashback websites, so I'm currently using Safari Adblock from http://safariadblock.com/ which seems to work perfectly. It uses the same lists as Firefox's AdblockPlus.
I found the plugin now will exit itself after flash embed web page is close on safari. Not idle there and stealing CPU power any more.
Flash and HTML5 are two very different things for content providers. Don't take it from me, take it from Youtube.
lol.
lolx2
Nice to see Flash updated, partly because it'll make my Macs run more efficiently and partly because it really ticks off all of the Flash-hating-Apple-Fanboys who think that iOS devices are actually real computers.
