Adobe has pushed out the release candidate for Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Solaris. 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. The reason this matters to the low power computing community is because Flash Player 10.1 features…

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Flash video is tough on CPUs. Netbooks have relatively slow CPUs. As a result, netbooks and desktops with low power Intel Atom processors have had a tough time handling some high quality and high definition Flash video since day one. Well, today is officially day two, thanks to the beta release of Adobe Flash Player 10.1. OK, that might be…

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A few new details are coming about about NVIDIA’s Tegra platform for low cost netbooks. First, as expected, these things can handle HD video without using much electricity at all. The Tegra 600 platform can handle H.264 video at 720p resolutions, and the Tegra 650 can do 1080p. And as TechVideoBlog discovered, that doesn’t just go for videos stored on…

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NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Adobe are working on adding GPU acceleration for Flash video to their video solutions for low power netbooks and MIDs. Because, while you can stream full screen standard definition Hulu video pretty well on a machine 1024 x 600 pixel display and an Intel Atom CPU, good luck trying to do the same thing on a 1366…

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