Flash uses a ridiculous amount of CPU

[mikester]

Watching some VoDs for some training and they are Adobe Flash based and they are hitting my CPU on my MBP comparatively hard. CPU spikes upwards of 60% on a quad core box.


I'm Just Sayin.

[svandamme]

that's nothing new

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Get a video card with an on-board processor and lots of memory. That will cut down load on the primary a lot. Same issue with Revit/3D Max stations. Buy an awesome video card and display, then the main system resources aren't so strained.

[Bill Douglas]

Sorry The Mikester, but that's a virus going nuts using flash player to wreak havok on your system.



Just joking hehe.

[asphaltgambler]

Didn't Steve Jobs comment on this a while back answering the question as to why Apple won't/doesn't support Flash for this reason??

[gr8fl4porsche]

Yep
That is one of his reasons.

[AirKuhl]

Use a computer with NVIDIA graphics and download Flash version 11, I think it's still a beta. It will offload all the Flash work to the graphics card which can do that stuff in it's sleep.

[mikester]

Yeah, I'm not changing my computer just to do some stupid flash crap (thought my MBP does have an NVidia graphics card). My point was that I now agree that flash is crap and I understand why my iPhone and iPad don't support it.

[flipper35]

Flash 10.1 and newer support graphics card acceleration on those cards new enough to support it. It doesn't have to be an expensive card, just something current or a generation old. Sixty bucks will get what you need if you want to go that way. It helps with lots of things besides Flash player as well.

[AirKuhl]

Originally Posted by mikester

Yeah, I'm not changing my computer just to do some stupid flash crap (thought my MBP does have an NVidia graphics card). My point was that I now agree that flash is crap and I understand why my iPhone and iPad don't support it.

Flash is just software, and like any complex software it occasionally has bugs. There is a fixed version, it's free and all you have to do is install it.
Download Adobe Flash Player 11 Release Candidate for Desktops - Adobe Labs

My MBP has had it's share of bugs and updates too, and Flash works like a champ on my tablet and phone. It may be crap, but if so then so is Win7, MacOS, etc....

[mikester]

Yeah, doesn't appear that Flash 11 is fixed much...tried it - still hitting the CPU hard. I haven't tried it using other browsers besides Firefox - maybe I'll do that.