Hello, the Mac Mini is indeed as you described. In addition to the 4 USB 3.0 
ports, you also have a firewire port, HDMI, Thunderbolt port, one input 
line-in, one speaker jack and a memory card reader. Hope this helps. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Fanus
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:24 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Mac Mini Update

Hello Dane
It sounds very interesting but forgive my lack of knowledge. Am I correct 
that the Mac Mini is a fairly small box with no built-in keyboard or screen, 
in other words, one plugs in a keyboard and a screen if one needs one. What 
other ports does the mini have?
Regards
Fanus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:18 PM
Subject: Mac Mini Update


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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