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Flash and battery

My new MacBook Air is a bit undecided in it’s battery display - it can easily jump from 5h to 2h and slowly creep back up again. I blame this on the small battery and the fact that it uses very little of it (resulting in a long battery life), so when you do tasks that are actually heavy on the battery it has to correct the time down significantly. Funnily enough using XCode with the intermittent compiles is light usage - but Flash video players aren’t. Watching a video on engadget just now made my batter display move from just over 5h to 2h37 (sic!). Now it is slowly creeping up again.

I used Gruber’s flash-free-and-cheating instructions to get rid of it in all normal situations.