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Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life 509

The lack of Flash in the new MacBook Air may annoy some users, but it has a big upside, too. According to Wired's report (citing Ars Technica) passed on by an anonymous reader, "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. After deleting Flash, however, the MacBook Air ran for 6:02 — with the exact same set of websites reloaded in Safari, and with static ads replacing the CPU-sucking Flash versions."

Comment Re:Let's just be clear on what they mean here (Score 1) 438

Front brakes are always superior to rear. An everyday regular-production turbo - not special one-off model - were a Saab first. Saab mainstreamed all those ideas, many that were previously blips in production (we don't have a lot of DKWs in the US) No mention was made of inventing any of it - using the best ideas in their regular production cars, everyday driver. That's what I'm tankful for. GM has already sold some of Saab's technology to China, seems there is still a market for things Saab. I'll be driving mine in comfort and safety during "The Blizzard of 2009" today. A lot of cars and trucks around me aren't going anywhere.

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