At the end of this informative post, Dane wrote: "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." You mean you boldly say that you
are not writing this as an advertisement? I must admit, you have been a bit
better about helping people out, on this list, of late, but, come on, Dane,
you cannot , in print, say that you are not writing as advertisements;
really ?? -----Original Message-----
From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:18 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
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.
**********
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
faceTime +61400494862
Fax +61397437954
Twitter: @grtdane
