My 2006 macbook pro CPU consumes about 65W when running at full speed and barely nothing when idle.

  • When watching a youtube video on the mac, it runs at 80% => 52W
  • When watching the same video on widows, it runs at 8% => 5,2W

Because of this issue, my CPU drains about 45W.

How many people are watching a youtube video, playing a flash game or watching an ad on a web page (1) right now ? Let’s say 10 million.

Let’s say 10% of these people are not using windows (2) These are 45MW which are lost because of this issue.

This the power of a small nuclear reactor!! Adobe, if you don’t care about mac users, think about the planet!

(1) This isssue concerns not only flash videos, but everything done with flash that envolves fast display update.
(2) This issue concerns not only mac users, but also linux and other unix based systems users.