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0:42 If Apple DID make a monitor
5:34 Missing! Scott Forstall
6:54 Apple’s M1 SSD Wear Problem
11:13Why the dislikes?
12:15 AirPods Pro 2 expectations
13:47 Antivirus for Mac
15:46 Notification Squad

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If Apple DID make a Display…
Built in AirPlay 2 (or 3?), low latency wireless monitors. - U1 Pairing?
Wakes as fast as a MacBook
Apple TV Functionality
FaceID & 4k webcam
Pro Speakers & Mic
And what should be an easy software feature for any Mac, let us scale displays by physical size as well as pixel dimensions. What do I mean…?

Anyone seen Scott Forstall?
Skeuomorphism fan Scott Forstall appears to be AWOL, and Epic Games are after him to testify at their court date with Apple, which will presumably be accompanied by a Fortnite update where everyone is in Attorney costumes.
Following Scott’s departure, Jony Ive expanded his role from product design to include the new user interface on iPhone and iPad, deleting the Skeuomorphic design and bringing the flatter aesthetic that we have the evolution of today.

Right now we know that Tim Cook and HairForce One Craig Federighi will appear at the court, though Epic wants to call Scott for his part in the original launch of the App Store on iPhone.

Apple’s M1 SSD Wear Problem… Will it shorten their life?

There has been a lot of talk online over the past few days, as well as questions since they were released about whether the SSD, or Solid State Drives inside Apple’s M1 computers are going to be over worn by the use of swapfiles, as a result of the lower unified storage in M1 systems. Because Apple’s M1 systems have such fast SSDs, which can access the data at up to 3.4GB/s, the lower memory configurations seem to act like more memory than there is, as it uses some of the SSD to swap data to and from.

Now Flash memory has a life span - expressed as a TBW, or total bytes writable. This number gives a warranty for how much data can be written to the drive before the chance of failure increases as the individual cells that hold data take a small amount of damage each time they’re re-written, with Samsungs drives being able to be filled around 600 times before likelihood of failure increases. That’s actually a LOT of data, especially when you remember your OS data is fairly static and any long term storage on your device like Application files and photo libraries are fairly static. Reading data doesn’t damage the disk at all, only re-writing it, reprogramming the cell.

So using a swapfile will reduce the life of the drive, but most likely not to the point where a failing SSD is likely to limit the useful life of the machine at all. M1 is, despite its high performance is designed to be the entry level, for those doing lighter work on their machines, and on even the smallest configured versions under fairly typical use, these shouldn’t hit their TBW within 5 or more years.

Now there are those who have been testing this using a tool called smart monitoring tools, which report that 1-2% of their drive’s lifespan has been “used up already”, again, even when the drive hits 100% here, that doesn’t mean it will fail, just that the warrantied number of writes has been hit… assuming the tool knows what that warrantied number is, which it doesn’t, its an assumed number based on typical drives. Apple uses Toshiba TCL NAND flash drives in their M1 Macs, which are rated for a compete drive wright per day, and at that level of usage (which would be extremely high) wouldn’t hit their TBW for more than 8 years of daily full drive writes.

Constant Geekery has a great video from a few weeks ago on the topic of SSD Drive wear, and even with his more conservative numbers, 5 years of life should be extremely comfortable for these before hitting TWB. Check it out up here.
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Dwain Alfred
#icaveanswers, I really want to know who are the 2 persons who are disliking all your videos. Your content is so good and straight forward.

Souvik Mukherjee
#iCaveAnswers, What new features should we expect to get with Airpods Pro 2 coming next month or so? Being an Airpods Pro user, I love what Apple is doing with computational audio. It's only gonna get better.

UK Apple Sheep
sorry I missed the premier, #icaveanswers, in my option antivirus software is not needed on Mac's, as long as you don't give the administrator access to the locked preferences (the system code), makes it almost impossible for you to install malware without needing loads of passwords and warnings. what's your option on this?

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