Hi!

I’ve had my new Mac Mini for about a month now and thought I’d share some 
observations with you.

The Mac Mini is fast turning into my main computer of choice because of its 
speed and power, here’s an example which I think illustrates the point rather 
well.

I’m testing a Mp3 player, I deleted all my Mp3 collection a few weeks back so I 
needed to create or download some more, given I have a good FLAC collection it 
made sense I guess to convert some of those, I started with the Beatles Singles 
collection 4 CD set from 1962-1970 which contains more than 40 tracks.

Conversion was over in around 30 seconds and I was using the highest settings 
with the LAME MP3 encoder to get the best I could out of it, on my Windows 
desktop and other machines such a conversion task would have taken around 20 
minutes or even longer.

I spoke to someone about this and he reckoned it would have only taken 5 
seconds or so with his Mac Pro machine and so it ought to given that his 
machine contains 8 quad core i7 processors <smile>, mine only contains one but 
I think the major contributing factor here is the Fusion Drive that my Mac Mini 
uses, put simply a fusion drive is a 1TB standard hard drive with a 128GB SSD 
drive incorporated into the design, when idle the operating system decides what 
resides on the SSD and what doesn’t based on the most accessed files, most run 
applications and so on.

Now I’m not writing this post as an advertisement for Mac Mini machines as I’m 
sure similar can be accomplished with Windows PC’s, I’m writing this because 
I’m amazed at just how far we’ve come, encoding and creating of MP3 files used 
to take hours if not many minutes not all that long ago.


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Dane Trethowan
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