Mine goes down to 8-10% cpu usage on YouTube 720p and stays unbelievably cool compared to my revision B.
I havent even heard the fans come on yet!!! Cool Cat!
I havent even heard the fans come on yet!!! Cool Cat!
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Flash 10.2 beta and the MacBook Air
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just installed the flash 10.3, its the 64bit ver of this beta, so here are my results so far:
youtube avatar 1080p trailer, fully downloaded before playing on youtube
regular 10.1 flash: cpu about 30%, safari 2%
beta 10.3 flash 64bit: cpu about 12%, safari 2%
youtube5 ver2: safari cpu about 15%
so from these result, clearly its a better performance than the regular flash.
total cpu from the last 2 is around 15% each. not bad, since i have clicktoflash, i think i run with the adobe flash instead of the youtube5 ext. on safari, this would eliminate unwanted flash video to play if using youtube5.
youtube avatar 1080p trailer, fully downloaded before playing on youtube
regular 10.1 flash: cpu about 30%, safari 2%
beta 10.3 flash 64bit: cpu about 12%, safari 2%
youtube5 ver2: safari cpu about 15%
so from these result, clearly its a better performance than the regular flash.
total cpu from the last 2 is around 15% each. not bad, since i have clicktoflash, i think i run with the adobe flash instead of the youtube5 ext. on safari, this would eliminate unwanted flash video to play if using youtube5.
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I did a quick experiment using the Speed Imax preview video at 1080p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou6_MkIvKOo&feature=player_embedded
Flash 10.1 used about 50-70% of the CPU and about 70MB of RAM
Flash 10.2 32-bit used about 15-20% of the CPU and about 70MB of RAM
Flash 10.2 64-bit used about 13-19% of the CPU and about 120MB of RAM
This is truly amazing, I have an old unibody 2.0 ghz from 2008, It had a "hard" time playing 720p movies on youtube. The fan went mad and with 1080p it took 90-100% CPU power and the fan at 6000 rpm. And some lag.
And now? 1080p movies at youtube only takes about 15-25 % on my old unibody macbook and no lag and nooo fan 😀 2000 rpm 😀 Good job apple for pushing adobe to fix flash !.
And now? 1080p movies at youtube only takes about 15-25 % on my old unibody macbook and no lag and nooo fan 😀 2000 rpm 😀 Good job apple for pushing adobe to fix flash !.
That's what it appears to be, according to the name of the download file. The 64-bit version is likely more significant for Windows users than Mac users, since IE 64-bit can't run 32-bit add-ons (while Safari 64-bit can).
Hellhammer
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You can forget about flash 10.3, there's a bug..the menu bar won't disappear when watching flash movies in fullscreen, at least on youtube.com. Back to 10.2...😕
However, for us, there are 32-bit and 64-bit versions that both offer the hardware acceleration features, and which both work with Safari. Thus, the question is whether the 64-bit version offers any benefits in exchange for its additional use of memory.
fswmacguy
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Question: The Flash 10.3 "Square" beta release is essentially just the 10.2+64-bit. Would my 2GB MBA benefit from the "Square" release despite not utilizing 64-bit software?
From my limited testing, it seemed the 64bit version "Square"/10.3b used noticably less system resources than the 32bit version. However, I couldn't stand having that menu bar constantly showing when looking at videos in full screen, so I switched back to 10.2b (32bit). Hopefully Adobe will find the bug and fix it, since it is a rather obvious one...
I installed the flash 10.3b 64bit. I also did about😛lugins and disabled the Chrome built-in. then enable the 10.3b. From Activity monitor, I still see shockwave flash as 32bit???
There isn't much benefit to 64-bit with less than 4GB. My suggestion is to stick with the 32-bit 10.2 beta. It uses less memory and it still provides the hardware acceleration, which is the biggest benefit to the Flash beta.