nguyenhm16

She should commiserate with Bobby Tables:
https://xkcd.com/327/

QLC drives like the Samsung QVO drives don't have particularly high write endurance nor are they particularly fast (hidden by an SLC or DRAM cache). Any sort of parity RAID configuration will chew through them in fairly short order.

A better deal would be to buy lightly used retired enterprise drives if you're intending to RAID them. They have much greater endurance, more sustained throughput, power loss protection (capacitors to provide power to finish out acknowledged writes in the even of a power outage) , and are suited for use RAID array. For example, I've bought a ton of 1.6tb Intel DC S3610s for anywhere from $130 to $210 each. Some were Intel retail drives, some were HP OEMs. All had 99% to 100% of life left according to the respective Intel or HP utility. 

At least we're churning out plenty of finance and marketing people, though.

aieronimo said:

dempson said:

The listed models have one feature in common: all have a Skylake or newer processor.

Skylake adds hardware encode/decode support for HEVC, so this might just be a case of the Sidecar feature being implemented with HEVC rather than H.264 to reduce bandwidth requirements or allow a higher frame rate. Older Mac models would have to do HEVC encode in software, so enabling the workaround might impose a significant CPU performance load when the display is rapidly changing.

I have a late 2015 iMac 27-inch, which is listed as one of the supported models for Sidecar, and I am pretty sure that it does not have HEVC encode/decode in hardware.  I think hardware support for HEVC encode/decode started with the 2017 iMac.

According to everymac, 2015 iMacs use 5th (21.5") or 6th (27") gen CPUs, which do have Quick Sync:
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.8-21-inch-aluminum-late-2015-specs.html
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/87714/intel-core-i5-5575r-processor-4m-cache-up-to-3-30-ghz.html

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-3.2-27-inch-aluminum-retina-5k-late-2015-specs.html
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/88184/intel-core-i5-6500-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-60-ghz.html

seanismorris said:

payeco said:

jbdragon said:

I have to say, this is just more of Apple looking greedy. Apple is making a ton of money and doing that at the expense of everyone else. If Apple wanted to rent or build someplace, I'd do a 50% markup Apple Tax to Apple.

Apple singlehandedly drives substantial foot traffic to places their retail stores are located so they can demand these kind of concessions. There are reportedly some malls here in this US that are kept afloat entirely by the customers the Apple Store brings; and without the Apple Stores these malls would likely have to close. 

No one else drives traffic?  That’s disrespectful to every other company in the mall/location.

Mall’s in the US are struggling for relevecy, but that’s not true everywhere else in the world.

Apple does look bad, and not a good neighbor.  If Apple demands concessions, other tenants will have to pay for them in higher rent.

Apple has some questionable business practices lately.  My high regard is declining.

I don't know why people ascribe any sort of morality to this. There are no good and bad guys in this, only business. Apple was in its rights to ask for whatever it thought it could get, and the landlord was within its rights to say yes or no. In this case the parties couldn't come to an agreement and parted ways, again that's business.

However, this seems to be the exception rather than the rule when you consider all the grandiose and not so grandiose Apple stores that have opened all over the world. It would not be unreasonable to assume that Apple drove similarly hard bargains at each of those locations yet those landlords must have thought juice was worth the squeeze.

In my city, Microsoft even relocated their store from the "glamorous" end of the mall (with the Tiffany, Chanel, Neimans, Gucci, Prada, etc. type stores) to a more "pedestrian" part of the mall (where the GAP and Bath and Body Works are) right next door to the Apple Store (which had also doubled in size since it opened).