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    Silly Mac question about Flash

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by amcg01, Jul 25, 2011.

  1. amcg01

    amcg01 Notebook Guru

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    Hi.

    I know very little about Macs. Can they run flash? I bought an Android phone instead of an iphone for that reason (playing MLB video highlights for example)...

    Sorry if this seems like a very silly question, but one of my primary computing needs is to run streaming live tv.
     
    amcg01, Jul 25, 2011
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    Yes, they can.
     
    hf2046, Jul 25, 2011
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    amcg01 Notebook Guru

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    Thanks very much.
     
    amcg01, Jul 25, 2011
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    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    Use Click2Flash so you can run flash selectively and have the best of both worlds :)
     
    ral, Jul 26, 2011
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    Just be warned that Lion changed the way developers can access the GPU for hardware acceleration so Flash videos are now relying on the CPU for decoding. This shouldn't affect playback on modern Macs other than increasing their CPU usage and operating temperatures.
     
    kornchild2002, Jul 26, 2011
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    There are always kinks in new operating systems. You'll almost certainly run into other issues as well. This will certainly be sorted out promptly.
     
    masterchef341, Jul 26, 2011
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    preview Notebook Evangelist

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    No, it didn't. Are you referring to Adobe's wrong claims caused by lousy QA?
     
    preview, Jul 26, 2011
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    That and from personal experience as my CPU usage has increased when updating to Lion and running Flash content, my operating temperatures have also increased due to more CPU usage. I am not complaining but it is something worth taking note of right now. Adobe should (hopefully) have a fix out soon that addresses the problem.
     
    kornchild2002, Jul 26, 2011
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    What do you mean by 'that'? The link clearly says that nothing changed in the Flash hardware video acceleration support in Lion compared to Snow Leopard.

    You anecdotal evidence is, well, anecdotal.
     
    preview, Jul 26, 2011
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