“Adobe’s chief technical officer, Kevin Lynch claims that Flash [version 10.1, still in beta] now runs at ‘almost exactly’ the same level of CPU usage on Mac and Windows systems, where previously the Mac suffered significantly,” MacNN reports.
“The v10.1 update is set to use CoreAnimation, which Lynch suggests could make Macs faster than Windows in some cases,” MacNN reports.
“Lynch concedes that video is still a major weakness, as a 480p video, running on a 1.8GHz Mac mini, uses 34 percent of the CPU in Mac OS X and just 16 percent in Windows,” MacNN reports. “Flash 10.1 is expected to cut CPU consumption in half.”
Full article here.
Lynch’s blog comment is here.
MacDailyNews Take: Adobe, since you still don’t get it, we’ll spell it out clearly: Mac users are quite accustomed to enjoying significantly better, not almost as good, experiences as anything the horrid Windows “experience” can offer. Therefore, you fail yet again and your shitastic Flash must die.
Adobe owes its very existence to Apple’s Macintosh. Sadly, lazy Adobe has long ago forgotten that fact.
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You have to be kidding, right Kevin?
We have made the ad animation crap run as well on mac’s but the video still sucks?
Oh please, let me rip flash blocker off now…. not!
After so many years of letting us suffer with instability, crashes, bug ridden resource hogging POS, you’re now telling us that is almost as good as the Windows version? ahahahahahahahahha…..
NO THANKS you can keep it. I’m ready to move on and I’m sure Apple and the rest of its users feel the same way.
…and the check is in the mail, too.
Good news for Mac users.
I’m still keeping my flash blocker in place on Safari, but still good news.
BTW MDN- Please! Include variable sized text in MDN 2.0 app. Please!
Adobe has not innovated in a long time…that is a shame. They were really good company.
just my $0.02
Whoa, wait a minute. Is this the same Adobe who’s been complaining for over a year that they can’t make Flash any better because its Apple’s fault not theirs?
What? Did one of Adobe’s developers finally purchase a copy of “Programming Mac OS X for Dummies” books?
Wow
I can’t wait until my flash experience is almost as good as on windows…
it’s like, I’ll still be crapping my pants, but there will be less to scoop out
This sounds like great news. Using CoreAnimation means that Apple has more control over Flash performance on the OSX. Also, the way I read it, video performance will be better on the Mac as well under 10.1, but maybe that’s not right.
Perhaps they’ll be able to use CoreVideo for Flash.
No, I think he was handed a used copy from a middle school student.
Adobe is riding the little blue bus with the flash class.
@ DRMSSDB:
That comment was shitastic!
Kudos to you!
Maybe Adobe are angling for Apple to buy them out, just to sort out the Flash nightmare?
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That way Flash could be either ditched or replaced by something better.
Maybe then we could get a Quark replacement that was affordable?
@MDN: How about a preview of features in app 2.0? We’ve been waiting a while!
Sorry Adobe, almost as good as isn’t good enough.
New Slogan –
HTML5: Shitastic Flash Must Die
haha
Does Adobe have feet of clay?
ADOBE SUCKS!!!
Since Adobe has ignored Mac user’s complaints about Flash, buggy /sluggish Photoshop performance, their upgrades (ha), registration issues and many more, we’ve passed our complaints about you to Apple, the company that takes it’s customers seriously…
Apple investigated each and every complaint very thoroughly over time and have decided to help us by publicly telling you that you will not ruin the Apple experience for their users. Jobs say get lost we all say good ridins – you’re toast
Oooo, almost as good as Windows anything??? I can’t wait!!
I ALMOST found ten dollars once.
‘Gotta get rid of those ridins. Good riddance to them, once and for all.
Well guess the “lazy” tag does apply. Why is Mac second class?
Too late Flash is over, finished, DEAD!!
I’m no Adobe fanboy or Flash lover – may Flash die – but to be fair when Ray said ‘Adobe has not innovated in a long time’ I must stick up for InDesign which has innovatively marched forward and made me drop Quark which I never imagined would ever happen.
Be sure to click on the link to Lynch’s blog comment – the comments which follow his are quite juicy and worth a read.
Just got home from work and one of the first things was to try to watch a Flash video on CNN. Yep, the stinkin’ piece o’ crap crashed Safari. Again.
The implementation of HTML5 can’t happen fast enough for me.
Not sure how to read this. Flash on windows wil finally match the quality of windows? It will become equally as bad as on Mac?