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		cma on Nov 5, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropping Adobe Flash boosts Apple's MacBook Air ba... "it's just as true that the tasks Flash is used to do are intrinsically complex and power consuming" Spinning, blinking, scaled moving sprite advertisements. I don't think those are intrinsically power consuming; the GPU on most phones/laptops could handle them (blind guess) 50x more power-efficiently than flash.

widgetycrank on Nov 5, 2010 [–]

Isn't Flash 10.1 GPU-accelerated? Maybe that was just for videos. Though I recall the Mac version using one of the Core libraries for vector graphics.

metageek on Nov 5, 2010 | [–]

I think only Windows gets the GPU acceleration, so far.

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