Apple's decision to remove Flash from the default configuration of a new MacBook Air and future Macs may have had as much to do with battery life as version updating, testing discovered today. New benchmarks found the 11-inch model getting an above-spec six hours of battery life with the default no-Flash install and several websites open but just four with those same websites and the latest version of Flash. Test conductor Ars Technica noted that the constant cycling of Flash banner ads on those sites was the likely culprit as it kept the CPU constantly active inste
