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Intel has been dead set on making sure that people know netbooks do not perform as well as full-blown PCs. The company insists on pointing this out because it wants netbooks to function as complements to regular PCs rather than replacements. That approach leads to Intel’s selling more expensive chips than the Atom chips that go into netbooks. So Intel has been quick to point out that netbooks struggle to handle things like high-definition video.
Adobe has stepped in to solve this problem. At the Computex trade show here in Taipei, Adobe announced deals with Broadcom and Nvidia, both of which make graphics chips that link with Atom chips, to produce a version of Flash that handles HD video well. Flash will direct graphics-heavy jobs to special graphics chips rather than to the Atom chip.
The fresh Flash should arrive by early 2010.
Flash CS4 Professional is available at an academic discount price of $249.
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