“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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Wow, that’s like promising that the next version of Swine Flu won’t make you as sick as the current version.
Sounds like Microsoft…flash for Mac…..Its just good enough.
NCG598
In California where I grew up the short bus was yellow. And, no I didn’t ride on it, I never rode the bus to school, but there was a kid down the street who did.
there is nothing stopping Adobe from calling QuickTime APIs to play video. QuickTime is an API every bit as real and useable as any of the other ones in Mac OS X.
If you want to play accellerated video, call QuickTime APIs, and if you must put stuff on top of it like buttons – fine – put it on top, there’s nothing stopping them frmo doing that.
I hate Adobe Flash since the future is now HTML 5. Get a life Adobe, you suck.
This is a disgrace. Adobe must pay dearly for such ethics. I’ve officially banned using any Adobe products. Apple should produce their own competing software and make Adobe crawl for forgiveness. C’mon.
D – Web Developer, NYC
Step 1. Apple buys Adobe
Step 2. Apple kills Flash
Step 3. The world celebrates
Adobe: the anorexic weakling who still dreams of being (and tries to act like) the schoolyard bully.
Any comments C1?
Hey, Adobe, remember PostScript (It’s free, just adopt it)? To quote Sextus Empiricus: “The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.” Payback’s a bitch.
fsck you, adobe
If Apple were to buy Adobe, they could do the following:
– decrease the performance of flash for Windows and make it buggy (sweet revenge)
– temporarily provide a super performing Mac version, so that people flock to the Mac
Then: drop Flash altogether.
The technique is called: embrace and extend
They could sell DreamWeaver, Indesign, etc. to Symantec, or to Microsoft both of which have been known to professionally screw up software products, making them unstable, security threats, and that break with every system update.
BTW, I use clickFlash, which blocks unnecessary adds.
Unfortunately, too many companies are relying solely on Flash for their websites, so when I must, I click to see Flash.
That’s it- I’m boycotting all Adobe products. How arrogant.
“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.”
This is maddening. I can’t count the times I have tried to watch a video on CNN or other news sites, or CNET, or Winding Road mag, etc… only to get the spinning beachball or an endlessly loading black square. How incompetent are these people?
“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.”
It’s not much better in Firefox. It used to hang FF 3.5 regularly and I had to Force Quit it. Not so much in FF 3.6, but I still get the beachball a lot.
I downloaded and installed the Flash 10.1 beta 2 on my 3.06 GHz iMac and played one of the Avatar HD trailers and it only used up half as many processor cycles as it did before. I can definitely live with that. I’m still going to continue to use ClickToFlash, but I’m glad that Adobe is finally getting something done. Maybe I can thank Steve for calling Adobe lazy.
I don’t know if Flash is going to go away or if it is a piece of crap. I just know that sometimes I need it and I’m glad my desktop machines support it when nothing else seems to work.
Flash should be left behind and abandoned, marooned on the Isle of Forgotten things to spend all eternity with it’s friends WordPerfect and America Online.
So sayeth Fin Fang Foom!
“but I’m glad that Adobe is finally getting something done”
So if they get something done that gives up “almost” equal performance with Windows, all is forgiven? Then we twiddle our thumbs for several more years with subpar performance again while Adobe treats us like castaways begging for a piece of food from the master to make us passive again?
Screw that. Flash can’t go bye bye fast enough.
I look forward to a Flash free Internet & am not interested in Flash. Until then, Click To Flash is an essential.
much too late my friend. you had your chance and you blew it.
Wow, the echo chamber is running full tilt. If MDN has an opinion then it must be ‘correct’.
This would actually be funny if it wasn’t so fucking sad.
I HATE THAT COMPANY! YAAAAAAHHHHH.
@ Fair and Balanced – Weird, MDN’s “echo chamber” must cover the entire internet, because pretty much everywhere you go, you’ll see opinions like this…
Die FLASH Die!
We don’t care go away!
Too little, too late!
=:~)