Hi!
This sounds very intresting.
Guess i have to have a look at a new one soon.
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> 11 nov 2014 kl. 17:18 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>:
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> 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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