The Adobe Flash 10.1 pre-release player is now available for your perusal (download link). Flash 10.1 promises much improved performance via GPU acceleration and other tricks which should make tasks like watching full screen Hulu and 1080P Youtubes much easier on the CPU. (anyone else think the release timing with 1080P Youtube is curious?)
Well, Mac users, don't get too excited yet. Adobe still hasn't enabled GPU acceleration on the Mac version. In fact, GPU acceleration has only been enabled on recent models of NVIDIA GPUs on Windows (where it is showing some major improvements on machines like ION netbooks).
It isn't all bad news - the release is still worth trying out. There was still some quality improvement f
