Shantanu Narayen, CEO of software company Adobe has, on the "Web 2.0 Summit" conference in San Francisco to optimize the Flash plug-in for Apple's new MacBook Air series (MBA) announced. A version with hardware acceleration was currently within the company in a beta test, Narayen said the moderator to demand John Batelle. Previously, it had investigations where, according to which the current 11-inch-MBA, the Apple built the first time without the Flash plug-in delivers, Flash up to two hours of battery life with losing - by a maximum possible six.

"If we have access to hardware acceleration, we proved that Flash on any platform is better or equally good," Narayen said, according to a report from Engadget. Still unanswered, however, is the question of how exactly Adobe Flash plug-in for the new MBA-series will be optimized. For the machines built-in Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics chipset is already in the Flash Player version 10.1.82.76 hardware acceleration for playback of H.264 videos available - if at the same Mac OS X version 10.6.3 uses from. Previously, Adobe had the function in a preview version tested. Why the acceleration of a new MBA is not used obviously is not yet clear.