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  • Inside High Sierra: HEVC promises to keep quality high, file sizes low for videos, photos

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    entropys said:
    This reminded me to go over to slashdot and see how the open source Stasi at slashdot reacted to Apple's HEVC announcement. Predictable, but entertaining none the less. You will be pleased to know that AV1 will be the best when its bitstream is finally sorted, and Apple has made a huge mistake. Just you wait!
    i remember the same slashdot arguments about codecs when the iPod first came out, then when Apple adopted H.264.
    Slashot used to be a site I frequented often (if not daily) way back during the days of Commander Taco when groups from all walks of life and tech could gather to discuss a top in a productive fashion.  Now, it's a cesspool of basement dwellers and iHaters similar to MacRumors that will shoot their mouths off at anyone that doesn't agree with their nonsense.  Slashdot is not even a glimmer of the site it used to be.
    macplusplusfastasleep

  • Qualcomm loses two key rulings in its patent royalty fight with Apple

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    One thing that confuses me a little bit is who manufactures the Qualcomm chips that Apple uses in its devices.  If Apple's partners are not paying Qualcomm until the lawsuits are settled, and Apple is not paying anything either to Qualcomm, then how is Apple getting the physical chips?

    Are the physical chips provided by Qualcomm?  I would think that Qualcomm would simply stop supplying the chips if that were the case until they get paid.  Can anyone provide some insight on that?

    digital_guyClarityToSee

  • Intel opens fire in solo ITC filing in support of Apple and calls Qualcomm 'abusive,' anti...

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    I remembered years ago looking for one of those fancy Murphy-bed units that integrates a sofa, table, storage, etc... it was a beautiful piece of furniture and smartly engineered.  They only sold it at this one fancy-pants furniture store in San Francisco.

    They were asking about $15,000 for that unit and it didn't even include a mattress!  I asked the sales lady why the unit costed so much relative to other similar systems that were only a tenth the price.  She then went on to explain how in New York (I'm in San Francisco) that the price of apartments are so expensive per square-foot that a regular bed would take up x-square-feet which then roughly is comparable to the price of the unit.  

    They were basing the price of the bed based on the price per square foot that a normal bed would take up in a New York apartment!  I proceeded to ask her that it made no sense to me to price a product that way and if that were indeed the case, I asked her if I calculate the price per square foot in the tiny cottage in a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco that I was planning on purchasing the bed for, would she then grant me a discount?

    She didn't have an answer.  My incident reminded me of what Tim Cook said about Qualcomm's business practices of paying for a sofa based on the price of the house it's going into.  

    After politely telling the lady that her pricing model was all wrong, I proceeded to walk out the door and promised not to go back in ever again. They shot themselves in the foot as Qualcomm is doing right now too.
    pscooter63watto_cobratycho_macuseranton zuykov

  • 'Baby Driver' cut in real time with Avid on Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro

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    macxpress said:
    I've always wanted a black Apple USB keyboard for just that reason. The white keys get so dirty, even with normal use. At least a black keyboard won't show it.
    There's a concept call "cleaning" that works wonders.  Try it.  

    I use disinfectant wipes every couple weeks to wipe down everything on my desk.  My white keyboard after 8 years still looks fairly new.  Washing hands helps too.
    cyberzombiepscooter63StrangeDaysRacerhomieX

  • High Sierra firmware suggests Secure Enclave, Intel 'Purley' chips coming to iMac Pro

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    nht said:
    netrox said:
    aegean said:
    Can't wait to get mine. The only thing I am worrying about is 4TB SSD and how much it will add up.
    Ok, please explain to me why you want that much SSD storage. I am trying to see the rationale for that amount of storage since MacOSX and several professional applications don't take more than 400 GB of space and I always think it's a good idea to use external drives for data. I mean, if speed is a concern, get Thunderbolt 3 drives which can theoretically go up to 5 GB per second. The latest SSD doesn't even reach that speed yet as for as I know. 
    Have you seen the price of say a 2 disk TB3/USB-C storage container (with no disks)? I've looked and the price of half decent ones is more than a 1TB SSD. I currently have my Photo Archive on a Drobo. that is more than 3TB of data. I'm not saying that I want it all on an iMac local storage but moving to USB-C/TB3 at the moment is going to be a costly operation. I'm looking at a normal iMac at the moment but the storage transition is going to be a major operation. Having a big internal SSD (rotating rust is so 1990's) is one way to go.
    Time Machine backups are going to also need some serious storage. It all adds to the cost of moving forward with the technology.

    You looked where?  Not Amazon. 

    http://a.co/gZDbD17 - Two drive (up to 15mm) RAID 0/1/JBOD USB-C drive enclosure $99.  About 1/3 the price of a 1TB SSD ($289).

    For 4TB of RAID 1 storage (total 8TB worth of disk) the total cost is $400.  Without redundancy you can make a 4.5TB Fusion drive (4TB HDD + 512GB SSD) using that enclosure for the same price (you'll have to buy the drives yourself). 

    http://a.co/0ZVpQtt - Two drive (up to RAID 0/1/JBOD USB-C drive enclosure $72

    One user reported these speeds:

    Sequential Read : 773.286 MB/s
    Sequential Write : 746.424 MB/s
    Random Read 512KB : 624.298 MB/s
    Random Write 512KB : 654.270 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 23.792 MB/s [ 5808.5 IOPS]
    Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 65.863 MB/s [ 16079.7 IOPS]
    Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 25.493 MB/s [ 6223.8 IOPS]
    Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 102.398 MB/s [ 24999.5 IOPS]

    USB-C is more than fast enough.  And the meme that HDDs is so 1990s is simply dumb.
    Seriously?  I would never, EVER consider trusting my data to some cheap, Chinese knockoff junk like this.  That's the problem with people that base their decisions solely on price.  What's the support and warranty on these?  I know, close to nothing.

    My Promise 12TB, 6-bay Thunderbolt2 RAID system costed a mint, but was worth every penny.

    Seriously, are you going to now recommend the $2 iPhone chargers too because certainly they must be as good as the real thing!
    williamlondon