As I understand it - last time I looked - the $899 model will get similar 
Specifications to what I have, money well spent if you have it.

> On 12 Nov 2014, at 9:08 am, Armando Maldonado 
> <armando.maldonado0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Mac minis retail for $499 for the base model and $899 for more upgraded
> features. You can visit apple's website for more info.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Johny
> Cassidy
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 2:07 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: Re: Mac Mini Update
> 
> 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
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>>> Twitter: @grtdane
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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