Our Unscientific Look at the Latest Flash for Mac Build

Let's try to make something positive of this oil leak/spill/disaster, shall we? While watching footage from the leak, and simultaneously having Activity Monitor open, I thought it would be a good time to check the CPU usage decrease promised in Flash 10.1 

Here's what we go on a 2007 MacBook Pro:

First, with the last version of Flash (10.0):

And then, with the latest release candidate of 10.1:

It is indeed a noticeable difference, with the bigger notice being the lack of the MacBook Pro fans that usually kick on in the first few minutes of watching a stream, as you longtime TDL viewers can attest.