Pre-release of Flash Player 10.1
18 Nov 2009 8:52am
Adobe's Flash Player has always been a cause of a performance drop on Macs, but with the new pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 things are looking much better.
Here is a brief report from Anandtech:
"I took the same Office clip I'd been using for all of the other tests and ran it on my Mac Pro at full screen (2560 x 1600). Using Activity Monitor I looked at the CPU utilisation of the Flash Player plug-in. I compared both versions of Flash and saw a significant drop in CPU utilisation:
Flash 10.0.32.18: 450%
Flash 10.1.51.45: 190%
Going from roughly 450% down to 190% (or a bit over 10% of total CPU utilisation across 16 threads) made full-screen Hulu playable on my machine. In the past I always had to run it in a smaller window, but thanks to Flash 10.1 I don't have to any longer."
Category: Apple/Mac
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