Adobe's John Nack wrote in a recent blog post that the new version of Flash Player (10.2) will be up-to ten times more efficient than previous versions. The new product comes with a number of upgraded features including mouse cursor options for developers, full-screen playback support for multiple monitors, and IE9 rendering support. However, it's a new optimized video-playback technology that caught our eye: Called Stage Video, it'll shift the performance load from the CPU over to the GPU. In the video footage posted on YouTube it was shown how the upcoming version of Flash Player works both on a PC and Apple MacBook Air. Thus, CPU usage on the MacBook Air jumps to about 125% of CPU usage when playing a 1080p clip, but when Stage Video is enabled, the CPU load drops to an impressive average of around 10%. While the changes will be likely very welcome many websites still need to upgrade their video players to support Adobe's Stage Video technology. YouTube has implemented support for Stage Video, and it is expected that others, such as Vimeo, will follow.