Macbook & Adobe Flash Player (even simple Flash lets CPU get very hot under Mac OS X)

With this Video I want to demonstrate how bad Adobe's Flash Player is working on Mac OS X. It's not the quality that lacks of performance, but playing Flash Videos makes the CPU of a Macbook run really high. This problem has been out for years and not yet been solved. Maybe this Video will help a little in the process as it is still a current issue. Adobe, please fix this!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Macbook
• Mac OS X
• Adobe Flash Player
• Cpu
• Hot
• Fan
• Overheating
• 10.6.2
• Coolbook
• Temperature
• Mac
• Apple
• Adobe
• Flash
• Plugin
• Snow
• Leopard

[iben07]

I think the only chance for a fix of this issue is to make it public that it is Adobe's Flash Player who causes this problem. It happens on all Macs, and Adobe has not been able to find a solution for this within 2 1/2 years.

Adobe has to make the move! Somehow they won't or can't...

[auntieNeo]

Flash is really bad on Linux too. Most videos have noticeable lag, and it's basically impossible to play fullscreen videos on youtube. I'm often forced to download videos and play them in an external player. I thought things would get better when they released the 64bit beta, but they haven't. Adobe needs to get their act together on non-Windows platforms. It would be even better if Youtube simply dumped flash for HTML5.

[brianbotkiller]

This is a great video - I've been fighting this issue on OS X for a long time now, and it's starting to look grim when it comes to winning...

[0bsolet0]

so... 2 years and counting.

performance is BAD (with anger)

[Odin13]

while im watching this, my macbook gets hell-hot

[Guthixpwnsyou]

Im on a pc and when i watch AVGN (angry video game nerd) videos i always get near the end a bunch of distorted pixels not on youtube and my cpu gets very hot which is why im finding a solution.

[linuxuser432]

@iben07 do u know why flash works like shit on os x? because adobe doesn't sponsore apple

[GlaciesTech]

I agree that flash shouldn't make a computer get that hot, however, I also think the macbooks need better cooling...my new 27 inch i3 imac barely heats up...(and the cpu only goes to 15%) and yes i watched the same vid in hd...got to about 103 degrees F...flash games got it to 132 though...

[busdriver153]

is that norman? for every computers and pcs?

[angelzerosly]

@angelzerosly i got im using istat nano

[angelzerosly]

how do you make istat display everything at once?

[javascriptvirus666]

adobe have hogged and milked the internet for far too long

i cant wait till the day they're finally dead and gone