There's an example dane, theoretically you can plug up to 3 monitors if you 
really are crazy about this, or as you said plug in supported devices and docks 
for data purposes.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:39 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Mac Mini Update

Again spot on <smile>, I bought a Thunderbolt dock, actually I bought it for my 
2011 Mac which had Thunderbolt but didn’t have USB 3.0 and I wanted the extra 
speed.

Anyway the dock gives extra flexibility to a machine at the plug in of a 
Thunderbolt cable giving extra USB 3.0 ports, another couple of display ports, 
more audio ports, more Ethernet ports etc.


> On 12 Nov 2014, at 3:34 am, Armando Maldonado 
> <armando.maldonado0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The firewire port is basically for transferring files if you have a supported 
> device, as well as if you have a monitor that uses that kind of plug. 
> Thunderbolt is Apple's way of either plugging in a monitor, which you would 
> need a special adapter if you have a VGA monitor and it can also be used to 
> transfer data if you have the proper drive for this. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Fanus
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:31 AM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: Re: Mac Mini Update
> 
> Hello
> Thanks for the info but what is a firewire port and a thunderbolt port? For 
> what are they used?
> Regards
> Fanus
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Armando Maldonado" <armando.maldonado0...@gmail.com>
> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:27 PM
> Subject: RE: Mac Mini Update
> 
> 
> 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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> 
> Dane Trethowan
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Dane Trethowan
grtd...@internode.on.net
Skype: grtdane12
Phone US (213) 438-9741
Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598
Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589
Mobile: +61400494862
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