well I’m very pleased indeed to know that you’ve noticed something <smile>.
> On 12 Nov 2014, at 4:23 am, Mac Norins <macata...@cox.net> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > ********** 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
