

Linux and Mac users are still out of luck. Right now Flash Player 10.1 supports hardware video acceleration on Windows XP, Vista, and 7. In plain English, you can watch HD Flash video from the web on a netbook - if your netbook has supported hardware and software. That means you can offload some of the video processing to a graphics card or other hardware without taxing your CPU as much. The reason this matters to the low power computing community is because Flash Player 10.1 features support for hardware decoding of H.264 Flash video. That means that unless any major issues are discovered, this is the full version of Flash Player 10.1 and the beta testing period is pretty much over.


