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
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> 
> 
> 
> 

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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
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