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I have gone a long time without using Adobe Flash, because I have tried to extend the battery life of my MacBook while I am on campus for the day (see the links at the bottom of this post for my writings on Flash). In the past, Flash is notorious for draining laptop batteries, because …
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It has been nearly a week since I uninstalled Flash on my MacBook. I haven’t had a chance to time my battery life, but I will do so soon. However, I do feel as if I am getting longer run time on my MacBook with all other things being equal (brightness set to minimum, same …
Cult of Mac provides a very harmless step-by-step process for uninstalling Flash from MacOS X here. They use the official uninstaller from Adobe here. I am currently running Flash free.
After reading this post on Wired which reposts a review of the new MacBook Air from Ars Technica, I am going to uninstall Adobe Flash from my MacBook. As has been widely reported, Apple decided to not include Flash with the latest MacBook Air. The reason given was that it was better for consumers to …
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Yufang has since my previous post on this problem continued to have problems with anything related to Adobe Flash on her Early 2008 MacBook. Today, I decided to test out a hypothesis that I had regarding Flash. On many forums, Windows users with Flash don’t report the heavy CPU usage and subsequent fan cooling reported …
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