> As for video, you're trading cpu power for gpu power when running flash vs quicktime, but I'm not sure the gpu will be any less of a drain on battery. Except

> As for video, you're trading cpu power for gpu power when running flash vs quicktime, but I'm not sure the gpu will be any less of a drain on battery. Except that using a cpu to emulate things gpu do natively requires far more power. A gpu is a specialized processor so the tradeoff isn't going to be 1 to 1.