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Adobe Flash uses 30% of the MacBook Air's Battery Life
Brandon Davenport
When Apple announced the MacBook Air the boasted a 5-7 hour battery life and of course, we we’re stunned to see that that claim held true. There are a lot of factors when it comes to batter life — heat, current processes, screen brightness, WiFi and Bluetooth (among other things), and the MacBook Air managed to run completely fine using everything you’d need — but when Flash was started up, battery life dropped from 6 hours to 4 hours.
Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably—as much as 33 percent in our testing. With a handful of websites loaded in Safari, Flash-based ads kept the CPU running far more than seemed necessary, and the best time I recorded with Flash installed was just 4 hours — Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Though after Chris deleted Flash from the MacBook Air, the battery once again ran for 6 hours with websites reverting to static ads instead of the CPU hogging flash adverts. Also, since Youtube, Vimeo and hundreds of other websites support HTML5, there’s no die hard need to use flash (unless you love ads). So hey Adobe, we want Flash to not suck our computers dry!
