How much we talking for a Mac Mini? I'm a fan of the iPhone but have never had a Mac computer. Could be a good intro.
@johnycassidy > On 11 Nov 2014, at 21:58, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > This sounds very intresting. > Guess i have to have a look at a new one soon. > /A >> 11 nov 2014 kl. 17:18 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>: >> >> 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 > >
