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But will these new Macbooks play flash without overheating and making the fan spin up to max? Can't even watch a 2 minute Youtube video on mine without it going mental.

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No, and ask Adobe why.

Isn't Apple to blame for not exposing the APIs to allow use of the graphics card from within Safari?

Have you tried the new 10.1 beta? http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ apparently it's meant to solve a few performance problems for Mac users... would be interesting to hear any feedback from a Mac user.

Edit: Forget this comment, didn't realize until now that hardware acceleration for video decoding was not coming to the Mac, just the PC. That sucks.

It's better(ish). But it's hardly good.

Not sure about any performance problems it might have solved for me. I just don't see a difference.

I tried the beta about a month ago. Made no difference to the fan problem, but it did leave a string of text in the middle of every video. I can't remember what it says as I've not got my macbook to hand but it normally disappears a few seconds after a video starts in the non-beta version.

Switch to the HTML5 Youtube.

Where the heck is the config page for that? I thought I'd set that as my preference on my account, but it switched back to flash for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

If you do this, and use a MBP, beware of this problem:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=7cf...

Symptoms are a very loud click, and then no audio plays until the computer's audio is reset -- do this by plugging in and removing an external device. It happened to my MBP and I thought I'd broken the hardware, it was that loud.

I liked the, "if anyone out there has a Digg or Reddit accout, submit this so we can get the word out" comment.

I hear Digg and Reddit accounts are free these days...

Thanks for posting this, I couldn't find the proper search terms to see if this was a widespread problem. On my system only a reboot fixes the sound system for some reason though.

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